• Michael Sheen – Miles
• Stephen Campbell Moore – Adam Fenwick-Symes
• Emily Mortimer – Nina Blount
• David Tennant – Ginger Littlejohn
• James McAvoy – Simon Balcairn
• Fenella Woolgar – Agatha Runcible
• Dan Ackroyd – Lord Monomark
• Jim Broadbent – The Major
• Julie Mackenzie – Lottie Crump
• Peter O’Toole – Colonel Blount
• Stockard Channing – Mrs. Melrose Ape
• Simon Callow – King of Anatolia
• Imelda Staunton – Lady Brown
• Bill Paterson – Sir James Brown
• Simon McBurney – Sneath
• Richard E. Grant – Father Rothschild

This star-studded film tells of how aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes needs to make some money in order to be able to marry his fiancée Nina Blount. When Adam’s novel Bright Young Things, commissioned by tabloid newspaper magnate Lord Monomark, is confiscated by customs agents at the port of Dover for being too racy, he finds himself in a precarious financial situation that may force him to postpone his marriage.

In the lounge of the hotel where he lives, he wins £1000 by successfully performing a trick involving sleight of hand, and the Major offers to place the money on the decidedly ill-favored Indian Runner in an upcoming horserace.

Anxious to wed Nina, Adam agrees, and the horse wins at odds of 33-1, but it takes him more than a decade to collect his winnings. Meanwhile, Adam and Nina are surrounded by a young and decadent crowd whose lives are dedicated to wild parties, alcohol, cocaine.

Adam secretly takes a job working as a works as a gossip columnist for newspaper tycoon Lord Monomark , reporting on the debauched activities of himself and his privileged friends

Among them are eccentric Agatha Runcible, whose wild ways eventually lead her to being committed in a mental institution; Miles, who is forced to flee the country to avoid prosecution for his homosexual lifestyle; Sneath, a paparazzo who chronicles the wicked ways of the young and reckless; and the wealthy Ginger Littlejohn, Nina’s former beau, who ingratiates himself back into her life, much to Adam’s dismay.

The pastimes of the idle rich are disrupted with the onset of World War II, which eventually impacts their lives in often devastating ways.

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