Vanity Fair

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Release: 2018

Stars: Michael Palin, Olivia Cooke, Tom Bateman, Johnny Flynn, Claudia Jessie

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Plot: Gwyneth Hughes' adaptation of Thackeray's literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of "villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing", takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes.