Director: Mira Nair

Screenplay: Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet and Julian Fellowes (based on the novel by Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray)

Release date: 30 Sept 2004 (Australia)

Rating: PG – 13 (USA)

Role:  Older Rawdy Crawley (Rob is uncredited since his scenes as Becky’s son, Rawdy, were deleted in the final edition.  It is however on the outtakes of some DVDs).

Co-stars: Reese Witherspoon (Becky Sharp), Gabriel Bryne (The Marquess of Steyne) and Tom Sturridge (Older Georgy Osborne)

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SYNOPSIS:

The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

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