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From: Working Mother
Date: 20050201
Author:Deahl, Rachel

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Vanity Fair: Reese Witherspoon trades in her pink suit for a corset in this British period piece, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. Playing Victorian social climber Becky Sharp, Witherspoon flaunts her dramatic side as a resilient, and sometimes disdainful, heroine. Regretting that she married for love instead of money, she survives poverty, heartbreak and motherhood during the tumultuous 1800s. Highlighting the price paid for a society rigidly divided between the haves and have-nots, Vanity Fair reminds us that some things haven't changed much from the nineteenth century ...

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