Bright Young Things (2003) on Netflix
Customs officers seize the manuscript of aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, and the hundred pounds it would have earned him are gone. Engaged to Nina Blount, he cannot pay for a wedding.
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Plot summary
Adam Fenwick-Symes, an aspiring novelist, is engaged to Nina Blount and short of money in 1930s London. Customs officers at Dover confiscate the manuscript he wrote for the newspaper magnate Lord Monomark, which had earned him a hundred pounds, so a wedding must wait. In the lounge of his hotel Adam wins a thousand pounds by sleight of hand, and the Major, who has been drinking there, offers to place the money on a horse named the Indian Runner. Night after night the same young crowd parties, watched in print by the columnist Simon Balcairn, and Ginger Littlejohn, once Nina's beau, works his way back into her company.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bright Young Things (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The character of Lord Monomark is based on Lord Beaverbrook, who once employed Evelyn Waugh as a writer on his newspaper, the Sunday Express, which in the novel and film becomes the Daily Excess. Waugh's original name for the character was "Lord Ottercreek", before lawyers intervened.
- Bright Young Things was actor John Mills's final film; he appears briefly and without dialogue as an elderly party guest fascinated by the effects of cocaine.
