Bright Young Things (film)

Bright Young Things
Original poster
Directed byStephen Fry
Written byStephen Fry
Based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Produced byGina Carter
Miranda Davis
StarringEmily Mortimer
Stephen Campbell Moore
Fenella Woolgar
Michael Sheen
James McAvoy
Dan Aykroyd
Jim Broadbent
Peter O'Toole
CinematographyHenry Braham
Edited byAlex Mackie
Music byAnne Dudley
Distributed byFilm Four
Release dates
  • May 2003 (2003-05) (Cannes)
  • 3 October 2003 (2003-10-03)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.7 million[1]

Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People—young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians—as well as society in general, in the interwar era.

  1. ^ "Bright Young Things (2004)". The Numbers. Retrieved 29 July 2020.