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Easy Virtue

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Not long after World War I, the Whittaker family awaits the return of their only son John from the continent. To their dismay, he brings a bride; a glamourous American racecar driver. The bride, Larita, thinks she and John will visit and then move to London, where he'll work and she'll race. But John is the heir to the estate, and his mother, Veronica, is nothing if not a master manipulator. Soon it's all-out war between mother and bride. John's father, Major Jim Whittaker, finds himself in the bride's corner, along with the family servants; John's sisters, Hilda and Marion, side firmly with their mother, while their neighbours, the wealthy Hurst family, look on.Easy Virtue was originally a play by Noël Coward, but has been adapted twice; first as a silent film in 1928, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and again in 2008, directed by Stephan Elliot. The 2008 version is the best known, and starred Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, and Kristin Scott Thomas.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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2020-06-24T02:35:23Z
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The Atoner
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The Atoner: Larita's grief for her first husband and relationship with John comes across like this, despite her first husband dying of cancer. Later it's revealed that he suicided, and she was charged with (and acquitted of) murder, and things make a lot more sense. Played completely straight at the end of the play, where it's revealed she really did kill her husband at his request.
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All Love Is Unrequited
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All Love Is Unrequited: Hilda for Phillip. Phillip for Larita. Marion for Edgar, but only because her mother wants it.
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Arranged Marriage
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Arranged Marriage: Sarah and John were supposed to marry, but John ran away and married Larita; she's a little annoyed, but not particularly torn up, and becomes friends with Larita. Marion is supposed to marry Edgar, who fled as soon as he could, and Veronica wants Hilda to marry Phillip, but he doesn't take the arrangement very seriously.
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Alcoholic Parent
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Alcoholic Parent: Jim is rarely seen without a scotch in his hand.
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