Monday, 9 March 2009

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Jessica Biel puts the upper classes in a spin

Easy Virtue starring Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Ben Barnes out on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Jessica Biel plays racing driver Larita in Easy Virtue

Fast in more ways than one, American racing driver Larita (Jessica Biel), scandalises the posh Whittaker family when she marries their son John (Ben Barnes) after a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo.

It’s the 1920s and matriarch Veronica (Kristin Scott Thomas) is horrified to have a vulgar possible golddigger in the family - especially since she wanted John to marry the girl next door whose father owns half  of Surrey,

But Ben’s father (Colin Firth) who’s traumatised  by his experiences in the First World War, sees Larita as a breath of fresh air.

With many laugh out loud moments – keep an eye on Poppy the chihuahua - director Stephan Elliott injects new life into this Noel Coward play with an ingenious use of modern pop songs given the jazz treatment.