Writer: Stephen Fry

Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, James McAvoy, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Peter O'Toole

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Time: 106 minutes

Country of origin: UK

Distributor: ThinkFilm

"Bright Young Things," is the first movie Stephen Fry as a director. Before the outbreak of the World War II the upper class riches get indulge in pleasure and partying.
The movie is a satire on the lifestyle led by the people of London in 1930s, who find pleasure in pretending and what all matters to them is money. They have simple rules in life: Money and part.

The center of the film focuses on young struggling writer Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) who is desperate to sell his book so he can marry and afford Nina (Emily Mortimer), a socialite who keeps her heart guarded. Adam being failed in his efforts to earn pay he calls to Nina and tells her he can't marry her because he has no money. Her interests get strayed to rich man Ginger (David Tennant). They have been friends for a long time and he is rich enough to afford just fine.

The movie has various subplots all wrapped around the main plot of Adam-Nina story. film follows Symes' ups and downs while sketching in the characters of the people in his life: his father-in-law-to-be Col. Blount (Peter O'Toole); Lord Monomark (Dan Ackroyd), publisher of Daily Excess, ; Simon Balcairn (James McAvoy), who runs a tabloid that issues gossips and entry to the party for Monomark; Agatha (a comical Fenella Woolgar), a party girl who takes part at a at auto race; Miles (Michael Sheen), gay and rather indiscreet. Sir John Mills has no lines, but rather simply snorts them. Jim Broadbent is a drunken Army major who owes our hero a substantial sum that he won betting on a horse.

The cast is amazing which has both the familiar and newcomers performers doing great job for their characters. Fry does create inventing entirely fictional members of the circle just to keep his readers amused. This is very much an enjoyable satirical comedy. The does not fail to touch on the most important and serious matters despite being able to offer light entertainment. The film could be a little shorter but the interesting plot with the variety of characters does not make it annoying.