Vanity Fair (Widescreen) |  | Director: Mira Nair
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Gabriel Byrne
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  119 reviews
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 141 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD25001D
ISBN: 1417003596
UPC: 025192500121
EAN: 9781417003594
ASIN: B0006FO8E8
Theatrical Release Date: September 1, 2004
Release Date: February 1, 2005
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Product Description
In a culture obsessed with status, Becky Sharp, beautiful, clever and poor, is determined to earn her place in society. While the wickedly amoral Becky manipulates the men around her, the vagaries of fate leave her innocent childhood friend, Amelia Sedley
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 31-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
The corsets and high waists of the 19th century meet the lush colors and visual splendor of India in Vanity Fair, a classic novel translated into modern celluloid by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). The very contemporary Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Election) at first seems to hit the wrong note as Becky Sharp, an orphaned girl who rises to the heights of society using her quick wits and feminine wiles. But as Vanity Fair unfolds, the movie's tone embraces both period decor and modern attitudes, searching for a bridge that will carry us more deeply into a different time. It isn't wholly successful--the movie's end wraps things up awkwardly--but some scenes achieve a surprising and vivid immediacy, in particular one in which Becky's gambler husband (elegant James Purefoy) catalogues his worth for her before going off to the Napoleonic battlefields; love and pragmatism fuse with heartbreaking results. --Bret Fetzer
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 A very well done classic December 20, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
I've actually seen this redone three times.
This version is the least painful of the lot,
if still not the most faithful to the classic novel.
Becky Sharp is not out of Jane Austin or Dickens, but she
certain represents a time and place in 19th century literature.
In this movie she is treated more kindly than in most
and with more understanding of humanity.
Vanity Fair is a bridge between French novels and English
with a very bitter irony and satire of the manners and culture of that time.
What we love to hate is the greatness of the writing.
 Fantastic Movie December 8, 2009
J. Grace Anthony (DENVER, COLORADO, US)
I love Reese Witherspoon, she is a splendid actress. This movie is great, it should have been up for movie of the year. Realistic acting by all the cast. It should have won best picture and Reese should have gotten an Academy Award for it by far this is her best work.
Wonderful! November 26, 2009
Zephyr Wind
This was a great movie and I enjoyed it a great deal!
Thank you!
 Becky Dull : The Castration of Vanity Fair November 16, 2009
S. sunshine (San Francisco, California)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I know it is very very late to critique this film. The horse has long since left the barn and the farm but when a film is this atrocious an additional warning cannot be amiss. The performances, cinematography, etc. are exactly as you expect them to be for a film this expensive. But it is all for naught. The screenplay and the idea behind it are so awful that no amount of technical excellence could salvage it. A collection of morons decided to extract the heart of Becky Sharp. The very thing that has kept people reading her adventures for 200+ years was judged as inadequately upbeat for the American public. It is a deeply insulting film. Their Becky is sweet. Vanity Fair is a cinematic hatchet job; they gut Becky.
Vanity Fair November 5, 2009
John D. Jackson (Smalltown, Indiana)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie looks beautful, acting is fantatic, screenplay..sucks. It's long, boring and somewhat confusing.
I only bought it for Robert Pattinson. He is only in the extra's the alternate ending.Vanity Fair (Widescreen)
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