The best thing I can find to say about this film is that it explores the shock waves in British society following WWI. Comedy? Hardly, but the Noel Coward original may have been. The mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) is unbelievably - and unjustifiably - nasty to her daughter-in-law (Jessica Biel). If we're going to have intrigue in a country mansion among the aristocracy give me Downton Abbey style any day.

Dark comedy? If this was a comedy, I didn't get it. It was a romance gone wrong, except with a nice twist at the end. Jessica Biel looked gorgeous through most scenes. Kirsten Scott Thomas's character was unbearable, but it was made up for by Colin Firth. A lot of difficult scenes on the home front in the wake of WWI as the aristocracy's world came crashing down.

Beautifully filmed, great acting, Noel Cowards time had passed so script was off, out of time.

The movie is excellent for a family night in and culture studies. Fantastic actors, realistic backdrops, care for details, real emotions, hilarious situations, and a dog! So English! The script is elegant, sometimes funny, sometimes sad. Worth watching. Pick up some prosecco and nibbles. Great time!

Jessica Biel is especially good but the story is just so unpleasant and it is rarely if ever darkly funny.

Easy Virtue is a decent film. It is about a young Englishman who marries a glamorous American. Jessica Biel and Ben Barnes give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places. Stephan Elliott did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the romance.

Just what is wrong with all you self-styled 'critics' . This movie is not pretending to be other than what it is . A Noel Coward gentle sweet and witty little tale . You are not dealing with Starwars here ! Or Gladiator !! You could not do a better job turning a very pleasant 90 minutes onto film . Beautiful Settings . Great cast . Fun and delightfully easy viewing . I'll be intense some other time Thanks . THIS --- is simply very very NICE !!!!

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Maybe someday I will read Noel Coward's play on which this is based, just to see if the play itself is bad as the movie. It took tremendous willpower to sit through the whole thing. I don't blame the actors, though, the screenplay and direction just got it wrong, pointless and sometimes even embarrassing. The redeeming qualities are the costumes, set and vintage production, and a very beautiful Jessica Biel. She, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas could have pulled this off with a better screenplay and direction.

Who rates these movies on this site? If it is rated bad, then I watch for sure and it is usually a very good movie. This movie was cute, romantic, and everything that good entertainment should be.

An OK flick to pass the time. Set in 1928, it's the story of a besotted younger British man and older exciting American woman who get married and end up on his parent's great house door step. Some inventive and amusing moments, but not enough to erase Jessica Biel's dreadful acting.

The movie is a showcase for the brilliant Noel Coward. It is full of dry, pithy humor when life seems so cruel. The acting was first-rate. Anyone who thinks Jessica Biel can't act should watch this flick. Highly recommended!

Great film with a quick wit and a lot of heart. This one was a big surprise for me. Loved it.

Maybe not as good as I expected, but still fresh and sweet...:)

This is a dull, baffling movie. The script is dull and the characters are completely flat, but every now and again there'll be a bizarre twist in the story or a weird CGI scene that wakes you up. It's like the director wanted to make Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby and then he chickened out.

I thought this was excellent, well acted and most enljoyable

A charming farce, well worth watching.

Like the British food chastised in the film, the movie itself had too many bland grey beige bits... story problems mostly. Biel and Firth put forth excellent performances however, and are the tasty bits and sweet dessert.

A Noel Coward play, made first into a movie by Hitchcock and now remade. The Guardian review called it a comedy. I'm beginning to think I have no sense of humour, because despite the comic bits, what struck me was the realism of a tale about the English social landscape devastated in the Twenties by the effects of the wholesale slaughter of young men in the Great War. Add in a subplot about the relative merits of assisted euthanasia, and there's the makings of a good yarn. Having Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas aboard did the movie no harm, either. Jessica Biel did a good job too, contrary to some of the reviews.

This is a decent film; it's not the best however, but it wasn't bad either. Unfortunately I didn't get to see the end as my telly was playing up but I read the spoiler on Wikipedia to make up for it :P. The film is based on the play by Noel Coward and is about a glamorous American woman, Larita Whittaker (Jessica Biel) who marries a young English man, John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) and he takes his bride home to England to meet his very upper crush English family who take an immediate disliking to her. Larita struggles to fit in with her husband's family, but with no avail, however she does manage to charm John's father, Major Jim Whittaker (Colin Firth). Jessica Biel is surprisingly good in this film; she was very likeable and charming. Kristin Scott Thomas gives a good performance as John's disapproving mother Veronica and Colin Firth is also very likeable and sympathetic in this. I felt however that the film didn't take itself seriously at times and tried to be a bit to funny and added bad gags such as accidentally killing the family chihuahua by sitting on it (to me that's a bit ludicrous, how can you kill a dog by sitting on it? I don't know if that was in the original play). I feel that the film would have been a bit better if it didn't try to be funny. Also I felt it lacked emotion an depth at times. Other than that it was a fairly entertaining and interesting film with decent performances from it's cast. I think it's a film that someone with disapproving in-laws can relate to. It's a decent watch. I give it 65%. Grade: B