Easy Virtue
Comedy-Romantic Comedy 2008
Length: 97'
Language: English
Directed by: Stephan Elliott
Starring: Jessica Biel ... Larita Whittaker
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, Ben Barnes ... John Whittaker
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, Kristin Scott Thomas ... Mrs. Whittaker
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, Colin Firth ... Mr. Whittaker
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, Kimberley Nixon ... Hilda Whittaker
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This is the second time that Noel Coward's play Easy Virtue has made it to the big screen after legendary director Alfred Hitchock helmed a silent adaptation of this social comedy in 1927. However the strong part of Coward's play is it's witty dialogue and seemed unsuited to the silent genre of film but director Stephan Elliott doesn't make the same mistake.
John Whittaker, a young Englishman, falls madly in love with widow Larita, a sexy and glamorous American woman who racers cars, and they marry on the spur of the moment. However when the couple returns to the family home, his mother Mrs Whittaker has an instant allergic reaction to her new daughter-in-law, she had hoped John would marry childhood friend and neighbour Sarah to unite the two houses.
