A would-be writer tries to raise enough money to marry his sweetheart, but a lost manuscript and several unlucky bets put his goal out of reach. Desperate to turn matters round, he launches himself into 1930s high society, hoping to curry favour with the rich and influential. Comedy based on Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, directed by Stephen Fry and starring Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, James McAvoy and Michael Sheen