Stephen Fry's gloss on Evelyn Waugh's satirical tale of British jazz babies dancing on the lip of an abyss lacks the novel's drier-than-dry bite, but compensates with a strong ensemble cast and a series of glamorous party sequences in which the decor has at least as much depth as the guests. Struggling novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore) hopes the advance on his scandalous novel, "Bright Young Things" (coyly attributed to a Miss Sue de Nimes), will enable him to marry his well-born fiancée, Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer). But the manuscript is confiscated at customs when he reenters England from France, setting in action a series of comic reversals of ...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
105 mins