Alexandra Staden

Vanity Fair -- Starring Reese Witherspoon as an ambitious social climber, Becky Sharp, this sumptuous and sexy epic proves that all is fair in love and war.

Born into the lower class, Rebecca Sharp, can rely only on her wit, guile and sexuality as she makes her way up through London society circa 1820.

Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is a lower-class girl who uses her considerable wit to climb her way up the precipitous ladder of 1820s London society in this faithful film version of William Makepeace Thackeray's famous novel. But it's not easy for Becky, who, when circumstances dictate, must become a governess at a remote country house, where she's courted in turn by an elderly lord and his roguish son (James Purefoy).

Starring Reese Witherspoon as an ambitious social climber, Becky Sharp, this sumptuous and sexy epic proves that all is fair in love and war.