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Bright Young Things (2003) -- An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies," is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.
Bright Young Things (2003) -- An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies," is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.

Overview

User Rating:
6.6/10   2,271 votes
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Director:
Stephen Fry
Writers:
Stephen Fry (screenplay)
Evelyn Waugh (novel)
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Release Date:
3 October 2003 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | War more
Tagline:
Sex... Scandal... Celebrity... Some things never change.
Plot:
An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies," is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
10 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(5 articles)
And the Best of British To You, Sir! (/Madam)
 (From FilmExperience. 24 April 2009, 7:37 AM, PDT)

Chat Fests
 (From Vanity Fair. 1 April 2009, 10:15 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
An Excellent Adaptation more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Simon McBurney ... Sneath (Photo-Rat)

Michael Sheen ... Miles

Emily Mortimer ... Nina Blount

James McAvoy ... Simon Balcairn
Stephen Campbell Moore ... Adam Fenwick-Symes

Stockard Channing ... Mrs. Melrose Ape
Adrian Scarborough ... Customs Officer
Jim Carter ... Chief Customs Officer
Fenella Woolgar ... Agatha

Dan Aykroyd ... Lord Monomark
Julia McKenzie ... Lottie Crump
Bruno Lastra ... Basilio

David Tennant ... Ginger Littlejohn

Jim Broadbent ... The Drunken Major
John Franklyn-Robbins ... Judge
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for some drug use.
Runtime:
106 min | Canada:105 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Director Stephen Fry commissioned two contemporary songs from The Pet Shop Boys for the movie - a cover version of Noel Coward's The Party's Over Now and a Pet Shop Boys-penned title track. These songs were written and recorded, but were edited out in the last minute because the director decided to stick to period music. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: A television aerial can be seen on the right hand rooftops in the external shot of the hotel that Adam and Nina stay at. more
Quotes:
Adam Fenwick-Symes: I say, this could be rather fun. I could even make up fashions. If I can't get Archie Shwert to wear suede shoes within a month, you can call me Diedre in public.
Nina Blount: Yellow suede shoes.
Adam Fenwick-Symes: Oh, Nina darling! You are a genius! And green bowler hats.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in 2005 Glitter Awards (2005) (V) more
Soundtrack:
By A Waterfall more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
An Excellent Adaptation, 12 June 2004
Author: spanishflea50 from Cambridge, England

Having seen this film at the cinema and thoroughly enjoyed it I purchased it on DVD and then read the book so as to better judge whether the comments that the film was an exceedingly loose adaptation were true. It is certainly true that Fry hasn't stuck to the narrative strictly but the changes he made in the name of good cinema were overwhelmingly the right ones and he actually managed to bring forward some entertaining background characters and relegate some fairly tedious ones. For example Lord Monomark who is a Canadian Newspaper magnate shamelessly based on Lord Beverbrook is rairly mentioned in the book but is superbly played by Dan Ackroyd in the film whilst the PM Walter Outrage who features heavily in Waughs novel is barely mentioned in the film and rightly so as the character in the novel is a complicated amalgamation of contemporary politics (i.e Ramsay Mcdonald and Bonar Law)that even I having studied the period extensively found heavy going. Also whilst the ending is contrived to be too happy it is a marginal improvement on the novel in my opinion which doesn't seem to conclude the book very well. Overall a superb film with excellent production values and peerless period feel for which Stephen Fry should be commended. I just hope that he has a stab at at adapting Decline and Fall which is another excellent Waugh novel.

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