If Easy Virtue felt more like a play than an actual movie it was because it was based on a play by Noel Coward, and while it wasn't great, I am partial to anything starring Jessica Biel and I therefore liked it. However, I can definitely see the story working better on a stage than on film.
In this period piece, Jessica Biel's character, Larita Whittaker, is an American car racer that marries a young British guy who takes her back to England to introduce her to his snob family. You can imagine the conflict: she is low/middle class, they are upper class; she is a working girl, they sit idly in their big mansion and play tennis; she is American, they are British. It is certainly a one-trick pony, but the movie is short enough that it doesn't get too repetitive.
I thought Jessica Biel did a good job, but Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas steal the show as the in-laws, and that's all I will say because I don't want to spoil anything. Everything else in the movie is okay: not great, not bad, so I am not going to say you must watch this film, because you don't really have to. However, if you're in the mood for an old-fashioned screwball comedy, then by all means rent this movie and find out how easy Jessica's virtue is.
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Bueno otra peli que se vera en estrenos e-mule, por que a 8,20€ la entrada me voy a pensar muy mucho lo de ir al cine en Barcelona, joder si vi una peli edicion especial dos DVDS por ese precio.
Esta peli es inglesa, y creo que la estrenaron en Europa mucho antes, con lo que no debe estar en el cine.
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