Sony Pictures Classics sees merits of "Virtue"

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures Classics has purchased "Easy Virtue," a comedy starring Jessica Biel, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas that premiered at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.

The specialty division picked up U.S., South African and Latin American rights to the film, which is based on the 1926 play by Noel Coward.

Set in the 1920s, writer-director Stephan Elliott's adaptation follows a young woman (Biel) whose happiness with her new husband (Ben Barnes) is offset by the fierce disapproval of her in-laws (Firth and Thomas).

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