The film:  Bright Young Things' is based on a Evelyn Waugh novel, 'Vile Bodies', and stars Stephen Campbell 
Moore as Adam Fenwick-Symes, an aspiring writer who is in love with Nina Blount (played by Emily Mortimer). 
However, he has a competitor for Nina's affections, in Ginger Littlejohn (David Tennant). The film looks at the life 
of Fenwick-Symes and his party-loving friends in the 1930s, in the years before the Second World War. 
Fenwick-Symes becomes a gossip columnist, loses his job and wins 34,000 pounds on a horse race. Much of the
film involves his attempts to locate the Major who took his stake and placed the bet, as well as his efforts to woo 
Nina. He eventually loses Nina to Ginger, but after coming home from war he wins her back (I will not spoil how he 
does this for those of you who have not seen the film).

The verdict:  'Bright Young Things' is well-directed by Stephen Fry in his first effort behind the camera, and is an 
interesting insight into life in the 1930s. Humour, glamour and young people having a good time sums up the film.
Many of the main actors were relatively unknown at the time, and have gone on to bigger things. It also features 
appearances by many well-known actors, including Richard E Grant, John Mills and Dan Ackroyd.

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