Vanity Fair

vanity-fair

Older Rawdy Crawley

  • Directed by: Mira Nair
  • Screenplay by: Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet and Julian Fellowes
  • Based on the novel Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Release date: 30 Sept 2004 (Australia)
  • DVD:  Available see official site below
  • Rating: PG - 13 (USA)
  • His co-stars: Reese Witherspoon (Becky Sharp), Gabriel Bryne (The Marquess of Steyne) and Tom Sturridge (Older Georgy Osborne)
  • Fact:  Rob is uncredited in this film since his scene did not make the final cut.

    • Plot

    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.

    Official Site

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    Clip of Rob’s deleted scene: