Vanity Fair (DVD)

One of America’s most popular stars, Reese Witherspoon, unites with one of the world’s most acclaimed directors, Mira Nair, to bring to the screen one of the greatest female characters ever created, Rebecca (Becky) Sharp. The new film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating Becky. Even as a child, she yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises. She resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. Becky deploys all of her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up into high society during the first quarter of the 19th century.