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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040903
Author:Jane Horwitz

Teenagers with a fondness for 19th-century English novels will find many delights in this atmospheric, unpretentious adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 classic about the rise and fall of social climber Becky Sharp. Reese Witherspoon acquits herself well in a cast of Brits as the flawed but likable social "mountaineer," though a bit more nuance in her Becky would have been nice. Her star power may lure some teenagers to the film and perhaps the book. The movie shows understated sexual situations between a married couple, a brief, sexually charged skirmish between an older man and ...

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