Inspired by Amanda Foreman's biography
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire, a popular and a critical success, this serviceable costume drama covers 20 years in the life of a woman many today refer to as the "It Girl" of Georgian England, an 18th-century fashion-plate and influential public figure whose celebrity couldn't entirely disguise her unhappy marriage.
England, 1774. Seventeen-year-old Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) is thrilled to learn that her sternly pragmatic mother, Lady Spencer (Charlotte Rampling), has brokered her marriage to the severely handsome William Cavendish (Ralph Fiennes), the 5th Duke of Devonshire, a considerably older m...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins