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Sony Pictures Classics sees merits of "Virtue"

Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:01am EDT

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.

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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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