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details
Release Date: Dec 22, 2000
Running Time: 140 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Adapted from the Edith Wharton novel, the story is a sustained snarl of rage at a world where women are overwhelmingly dependent on men for their livelihoods and in which one malicious whisper can destroy a life. Lily Bart is a ravishing socialite at the height of her success who quickly discovers the precariousness of her position when her beauty and charm start attracting unwelcome interest and jealousy. Torn between her heart and her head, Lily always seems to do the right thing at the wrong time. She seeks a wealthy husband and in trying to conform to social expectations, she misses her chance for real love with Lawrence Selden. Her quest for a husband comes to a scandalous end when she is falsely accused of having an affair with a married man and is rejected by society and her friends.
cast + crew
Director
Lily Bart
Gus Trenor
Mrs Peniston
George Dorset
Sim Rosedale
Bertha Dorset
Grace Stepney
Carry Fisher
Lawrence Selden
Judy Trenor
screenplay
Screenplay
Novel as Source Material
Source Material
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Executive Producer
reviews
December 11, 2000
"With Edith Wharton, the gloves are off and there's blood on the walls." So says director Terence Davies, who delivers the author's 1905 novel to the screen in all its full, flinty vigor. The delicate dynamite of Gillian Anderson in a performance that deserves to be widely celebrated brings a grieving heart to this vicious social satire. In looking at greedy old New York at the turn of the last century, Davies finds only a few things changed about the pulse of sex and the city. Who's in and…
Edith Wharton's Victorian classic follows our heroine from riches to rags, from mirthful to miserable as she fails to nab a moneyed man. Story Gillian Anderson is Lily Bart, a woman of shaky means for who parties are business and the pursuit of marriage has become a constant vocation. She falls in love with Lawrence Seldon (Eric Stoltz), but quickly realizes she can't seriously consider him since he actually works for a living. Still, her efforts to marry for money instead of love are so…
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