Vanity Fair

Name: Vanity Fair
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: September 1, 2004
Duration: 141 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai

2004

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Focus Features | Release Date: September 1, 2004 | PG-13

Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai

Summary: Mira Nair's film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackery introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate and calculating heroine Becky Sharp (Witherspoon). (Focus Features)

Director: Mira Nair

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 141 min

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Roger Ebert

The peculiar quality of Vanity Fair, which sets it aside from the Austen adaptations such as "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice," is that it's not about very nice people. That makes them much more interesting. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Nair and screenwriters Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet and Julian Fellowes have faithfully carried most of the main characters over from the novel but have changed its point of view. Read full review

Carina Chocano

It almost makes you wonder whether Vanity Fair is not the perfect text for a lesson in Buddhist detachment. Certainly, Vanity Fair is a never-ending Western story that benefits from Nair's philosophically Eastern point of view. Read full review

Peter Travers

In an effort to blend Thackeray and "Sex and the City," Vanity Fair ends up nowhere. Read full review

Richard Schickel

There's something about her (Nair) Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. Read full review

Premiere Glenn Kenny

I don’t quite cherish Thackeray’s novel, but a can-do feminist, multicultural contemporization of it strikes me as, well, unnecessary. Read full review

Charles Taylor

There may be filmmakers whose own vision is vast enough to take on Thackeray's, but Mira Nair isn't one of them. Her new film of Vanity Fair is a disaster. Scene by scene and moment to moment, it's a woeful misreading of the book. Read full review

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GregB.

Nov 8, 2005

An extravagant and very well acted retelling of Thackeray's masterpiece of EnglIsh manners and mores at the beginning of the 19th century.

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IlzeS.

Jan 8, 2006

Movie was good, I liked everyone in this movie. I think, it

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