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Easy Virtue (2009)
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B-Details Release Date: May 22, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 93 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Ben Barnes and Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel in a teacup-rattling '20s period piece? With her lewd pinup grin and husky flat voice, she sticks out like a sore starlet in Easy Virtue — but that's the whole point in this loosely ''freshened up'' version of a Noël Coward play. Biel plays the race-car-driving American bride of a British rich kid (Ben Barnes), who takes her to the family mansion. Once there, she squares off against her new in-laws — Kristin Scott Thomas as Barnes' embattled mother, Colin Firth as the whipped-puppy patriarch — with vulgar vitality, even if the picture itself is only mechanically breezy. B–
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