Vanity Fair (2004)

Rob’s Character: Older Rawdy Crawley, the son of Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon)
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: September 1, 2004
DVD Release date: February 1, 2005
Movie Rating: PG-13
Cast Members: Reese Witherspoon, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Bob Hoskins, Eileen Atkins
Additional Info: Rob’s scenes did not make it into the movie but were shown on the DVD Special Features.
Plot Summary
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.