BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS (2004)

STEPHEN FRY

Drama Comedy Luke's Lushes 1930s Literary Classics Media/Journalism Historical Recommended

Cast

EMILY MORTIMER DAVID TENNANT DAN AYKROYD JIM BROADBENT JIM CARTER RICHARD E GRANT IVAN MAREVICH SIMON MCBURNEY JOHN MILLS EVELYN WAUGH

Plot

Adam and his friends are youth at its most hedonistic, reared in the upper echlons of British society they are the first of their class to indulge every whim in full view of the public eye, and the booming press love them for it. This relentless and unfocused pursuit of pleasure ultimately begins to implode on the Bright Young Things' and a series of self induced, and outside, events conspire to force the remnants of the group to re-evaluate their lives. Bright Young Things is adapted from Evelyn Waugh's "Vile Bodies" and while it looks glorious and has some delicious dialogue, it lacks the darker heart of the book and therefore some of its soul.