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Easy Virtue (2009)
description written by member Zara:
American divorcée Larita (Jessica Biel) meets a wealthy young Englishman, John Whittaker (Ben Barnes), in France and impulsively marries him -- but she's not ready to take on her disapproving new in-laws (Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas). When John returns to his parents' country estate with his new bride, the dysfunctional Whittaker family attempts to destroy the spirited American girl. This romantic comedy is based on Noel Coward's play.
| Release Date: | May 22nd, 2009 |
| MPAA Rating: | PG |
| Running Time: | 97 minutes |
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Easy Virtue Movie Review by Zara  (9/19/2009) |
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Aside from some top tier acting from Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth, for the most part this movie about an American woman who decides on a whim to marry a British young man while she's in France after being disqualified from an auto race because she's a woman, I was rather bored with this movie.
Sure, the...
(complete Easy Virtue review by Zara)
There isn't a minute of this film that isn't witty or charming or just plain funny. Kristen Scott Thomas may not have won a Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as the matriarch, but I am sure she is perfectly happy with her Best Actress award for Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, an amazing film, if you haven't...
(complete Easy Virtue review by Movie Addict)
| Easy Virtue Movie Review by Lloyd (9/21/2009) |
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I love this movie, I saw it off the beaten path one afternoon, the movies at the theater begin late in the afternoon but it was well worth it. I am not a jessica biel fan but she is okay as the 'loud american' as kristin scott-thomas calls her in this film. In the usual crowded summer fare of big hollywood blockbusters...
(complete Easy Virtue review by Lloyd)
| Easy Virtue Movie Review by Jarrod (5/25/2009) |
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'Easy Virtue' is an adaptation of Noel Coward's acclaimed 1924 play; Hitchcock directed a silent version of the story in 1928, but that betrayed the best quality of the source material; its sharp, witty dialogue. This is a searing, yet subtle, critique of the British upper middle class, particularly one family, the...
(complete Easy Virtue review by Jarrod)
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