A fool and his money. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore) is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer). He's a novelist with a one hundred-pound advance for a manuscript confiscated by English customs. He spends the next several years trying to get money and to set a wedding date. He trades in gossip, wins money on wagers, then gives it to a drunken Major (Jim Broadbent), who suggested he bet on a horse in ... (Full plot summary below)
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A fool and his money. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore) is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer). He's a novelist with a one hundred-pound advance for a manuscript confiscated by English customs. He spends the next several years trying to get money and to set a wedding date. He trades in gossip, wins money on wagers, then gives it to a drunken Major (Jim Broadbent), who suggested he bet on a horse in an upcoming race. Adam tries to get the money back, but can't find the Major. Meanwhile, Nina needs security, friends drink too much, and general unhappiness spoils the party. Then war breaks out. Is Adam's bright youth dimming with the fall of an empire?
Leave your thoughts about Bright Young Things.
| Long Island PressPrairie MillerFry seems to believe there's nothing that would fulfill audiences more than to vicariously tag along on screen after fictionalized celebrity types from another time. |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderA terribly witty romp...but director Fry furtively hints at shades of compunction and misfortune...taking the film to unexpected level of empathy, nuance and humanity. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThere's no denying that Fry's movie is all the livelier for its gay embellishment. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie has a sweetness and tenderness for these characters, poor lambs, blissfully unaware that they're about to be flattened by World War II. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottA long party strivingly decadent but often just strained. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderA droll Jazz-Age satire ... with many spirited performances and lively supporting characters, but ultimately as purposeless as the characters themselves. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeThat rarest of things: a movie that is at once the filmmaker's own and a respectful adaptation of the book. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIf a movie can draw this kind of talent for mostly miniscule roles, how can you go wrong? |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe wit never comes through the art deco settings. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereBegins unsteadily but finds its feet and grows more shriek-worthily droll as it proceeds. |
