Bright Young Things (2003)
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 106m
Director: Stephen Fry
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Guy Henry, James McAvoy, Fenella Woolgar, Peter O'Toole, Simon McBurney, Jim Carter, Julia McKenzie, Simon Callow, Imelda Staunton, Bill Paterson, Nigel Planer, Harriet Walter, Angela Thorne, Margaret Tyzack, Richard E. Grant, John Mills
Synopsis:
A young would-be author loses his manuscript to H M Customs and with it any immediate hope of marrying his sweetheart, an adherent to the rich and spoilt circle who set London agog with their wild parties. As various other paths to fortune fall open only to be cruelly barred, it begins to look as though their love will truly depend on her fidelity to the primary claimant to her affections: cash.
Review:
Waugh's satire of 30s London loses some of its acerbic aloofness and resolves itself into a helter skelter series of scrapes and coincidences consistent with a Candide of any age. It is a delight principally for its roster of guest appearances, though there are some well-observed individual scenes and the hero is both honest and worldly enough to afford agreeable company, while at the same time distancing himself from the egotism and vacuity of the set with which he is associated.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 106m
Director: Stephen Fry
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Guy Henry, James McAvoy, Fenella Woolgar, Peter O'Toole, Simon McBurney, Jim Carter, Julia McKenzie, Simon Callow, Imelda Staunton, Bill Paterson, Nigel Planer, Harriet Walter, Angela Thorne, Margaret Tyzack, Richard E. Grant, John Mills
Synopsis:
A young would-be author loses his manuscript to H M Customs and with it any immediate hope of marrying his sweetheart, an adherent to the rich and spoilt circle who set London agog with their wild parties. As various other paths to fortune fall open only to be cruelly barred, it begins to look as though their love will truly depend on her fidelity to the primary claimant to her affections: cash.
Review:
Waugh's satire of 30s London loses some of its acerbic aloofness and resolves itself into a helter skelter series of scrapes and coincidences consistent with a Candide of any age. It is a delight principally for its roster of guest appearances, though there are some well-observed individual scenes and the hero is both honest and worldly enough to afford agreeable company, while at the same time distancing himself from the egotism and vacuity of the set with which he is associated.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 106m
Director: Stephen Fry
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Guy Henry, James McAvoy, Fenella Woolgar, Peter O'Toole, Simon McBurney, Jim Carter, Julia McKenzie, Simon Callow, Imelda Staunton, Bill Paterson, Nigel Planer, Harriet Walter, Angela Thorne, Margaret Tyzack, Richard E. Grant, John Mills
Synopsis:
A young would-be author loses his manuscript to H M Customs and with it any immediate hope of marrying his sweetheart, an adherent to the rich and spoilt circle who set London agog with their wild parties. As various other paths to fortune fall open only to be cruelly barred, it begins to look as though their love will truly depend on her fidelity to the primary claimant to her affections: cash.
Review:
Waugh's satire of 30s London loses some of its acerbic aloofness and resolves itself into a helter skelter series of scrapes and coincidences consistent with a Candide of any age. It is a delight principally for its roster of guest appearances, though there are some well-observed individual scenes and the hero is both honest and worldly enough to afford agreeable company, while at the same time distancing himself from the egotism and vacuity of the set with which he is associated.