Easy Virtue Movie on DVD - An Excellent Family Subject

Sept. 25, 2009 - PRLog -- Easy Virtue is a social comedy movie directed by Stephen Elliott and stars Jessica Biel as Larita, Ben Barnes as John Whittaker, Colin Firth as Colonel Jim Whittaker and Kristin Scott Thomas as Veronica.  

According to the story, Larita (Jessica Biel) is an American widow and a successful racecar driver meets John Whittaker (Ben Barnes), a young Englishman who falls in love with her. Soon, they both marry each other in the South of France. When they return to England to meet his parents, John’s mother -- Veronica (Kristin Scott Thomas) strongly dislikes her daughter-in-law, since she is an impudent American like Colonel (Colin Firth) -- John’s father who speaks fluent French and likes Larita a lot, since he finds a similar spirit in her.

Larita life in John’s family is like a living hell for her, especially with Veronica who strongly strict her in involving in car race. Larita also finds difficult to move with the younger daughter of the family -- Hilda, as she embarrasses her a lot. As the days go on, Larita is much disappointed since John is not ready to move out of the house. She feels as if she lost her independence completely.

At one stage, Larita meets John's former girlfriend and neighbour Sarah Hurst (Charlotte Riley) who comes to the join Whittakers' parties, and to play tennis. Sarah is often accompanied by her brother Philip (Christian Brassington) on whom Hilda is has a crush but gets anger over Larita since Philip gets infatuated with her. Whenever Larita tries to satisfy Veronica, she gets resented by her mother-in-law. Veronica use to play some dirty tricks against Larita so that John will divorce his wife and move on with Sarah.

Things started to change in favor of Veronica, when Hilda obtains a newspaper cutting unveiling outrageous secrets about Larita's first marriage, arguments and break-ups occur for Larita with her husband. Will Larita rejoins with John?

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