In VANITY FAIR, 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.

The daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl, Becky is orphaned at a young age. Even as a child, she yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises. As she leaves Miss Pinkerton's Academy at Chiswick, Becky resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. She 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.

VANITY FAIR also stars Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Geraldine McEwan, James Purefoy, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The casting was by Mary Selway. The costume designer is Beatrix Aruna Pasztor. The makeup & hair designer is Jenny Shircore. The music is by Mychael Danna. The editor is Allyson C. Johnson. The production designer is Maria Djurkovic. The director of photography is Declan Quinn. The associate producers are Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet. The co-producer is Jane Frazer. The executive producers are Jonathan Lynn, and Howard Cohen and Pippa Cross. The producers are Janette Day, Donna Gigliotti, and Lydia Dean Pilcher. Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, the screenplay is by Matthew Faulk & Mark Skeet and Julian Fellowes. The director is Mira Nair. VANITY FAIR, a Focus Features release, is MPAA-rated PG-13 (for some sensuality/partial nudity and a brief violent image) and has a running time of 141 minutes.