Bright Young Things (2004)

We follow a group of privileged (for the most part) young adults as they flit from party to party -- no true relationships in sight. What I think was supposed to be funny wasn't very and what I suppose was meant to be touching wasn't either...it just felt false and forced from start to finish.

Two good things: 1) there was a particularly lovely bit of acting by James McAvoy when he was begging for invite after being banned from a party (embedded below) and 2) David Tennant! Even though he was playing a character we were all supposed to dislike for his milquetoastiness and for stealing away the girl from our "hero," I just love him so there.

As a whole, it was lazy and whatever big points Waugh may have made in his novel were completely lost in transition to screen.

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