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Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American costume drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, and Nair's version made notable changes in the development of main character Becky Sharp.
The film was nominated for "Golden Lion" Award in 2004 Venice Film Festival.
The story opens in London, in the year of 1802. The mysterious Lord Steyne (Gabriel Byrne) makes his way to a painter's studio where he has agreed to buy a painting of a young woman. The young Becky Sharp (Angelica Mandy), then a girl of ten, insists on having ten guineas, instead of four guineas, as the price of the painting. The painter explains that the model in the painting is Becky's mother, the painter's late wife. Steyne agrees to pay the higher amount and leaves with the painting. The young Becky is seen moving to Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies after her father's death.
The now-adult Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is preparing to leave the academy for a position as a governess. She travels by carriage to her new position, stopping on the way to see her best friend Amelia Sedley (Romola Garai) at Amelia's home. Amelia lives in a large estate as the daughter of a gentleman, but her father is not as wealthy as he appears.
Actors: Karina Friend Buck (actress), Michael Wincott (actor), Kate Burton (actress), Sean Penn (actor), John Turturro (actor), Catherine Keener (actress), Stanley Tucci (actor), Bruce Willis (actor), Paul Herman (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Gary Teague (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Vincent De Paul (actor), Kristen Stewart (actress), Tiffany Pulvino (actress),
Plot: A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard, and with his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers may have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year old daughter, from another marriage, has probably been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces?
Keywords: absent-father, actor, actor-playing-himself, agent, airport, alarm-clock, alcoholic, anger, answering-machine, assistantActors: Trevor Anderson (director), Trevor Anderson (producer), Trevor Anderson (writer), Mark Kandborg (actor), William Minsky (producer), Justin Lachance (editor), Pat Trautman (miscellaneous crew), Tom Edwards (actor), Shereen Jerrett (miscellaneous crew), Griffin Cork (actor), Nik Kozub (composer), Nik Kozub (actor), Linda Grass (actress), Nick Green (actor), Jason Morris (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,