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Easy Virtue (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Stephan Elliott

Written By:
Stephan Elliott
Sheridan Jobbins

Actors:
Jessica Biel ..... Larita Whittaker
Ben Barnes ..... John Whittaker
Kristin Scott Thomas ..... Mrs. Whittaker
Colin Firth ..... Mr. Whittaker
Kimberley Nixon ..... Hilda Whittaker
Katherine Parkinson ..... Marion Whittaker
Kris Marshall ..... Furber
Christian Brassington ..... Phillip Hurst
Charlotte Riley ..... Sarah Hurst
Jim McManus ..... Jackson
Pip Torrens ..... Lord Hurst
Jeremy Hooton ..... Davis
Joanna Bacon ..... Cook
Maggie Hickey ..... Millie the Maid
John Warburton ..... Mr. Gribble

Synopsis:

"Easy Virtue," Stephan Elliott's carbonated screen adaptation of an early Noël Coward play, is so intent on sustaining a facade of fizzy effervescence that it incorporates bouncy period-style versions of songs by Coward and Cole Porter as a peppy running soundtrack. One character, John Whittaker (Ben Barnes), a dewy English upper-class twit who brings his glamorous, somewhat older new American wife, Larita (Jessica Biel), home to meet his poisonous family, is so enamored of the songs that snippets of the lyrics seep into his dialogue. "Easy Virtue" follows the travails of Larita, a brash, beautiful, widowed race-car driver from Detroit whom John meets in Monaco and impulsively marries. John's mother, Veronica (Kristin Scott Thomas), is predisposed to loathe her new daughter-in-law. And from the moment Larita steps out of John's BMW roadster onto the Whittaker estate, she campaigns for Larita's undoing. In its cold-eyed assessment of the English aristocracy "Easy Virtue" has none of the lurking Anglophilia found in Merchant-Ivory movies.

Comedy, romance. A young English aristocrat falls madly in love with a sexy and glamorous American woman and they impetuously get married. When the couple arrive at his family home, his mother has an instant allergic reaction to everything about her new daughter in law.

A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

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