The house of mirth
(DVD) 

From the novel "The house of mirth" by Edith Wharton.

Special features: Director commentary [audio feature]; Deleted scenes with optional commentary (13 min.); Filmographies [text feature]; Theatrical trailers (12 min.).

Director of photography, Remi Adefarasin ; editor, Michael Parker ; production designer, Don Taylor ; costume designer, Monica Howe ; musical director, Adrian Johnston ; hair & make-up, Jan Harrison Shell.

Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Jodhi May, Elizabeth McGovern, Eric Stoltz.

Originally produced as a British motion picture in 2000.

The story takes place at the opening of a new century, one that held forth all kinds of promises, especially for women. In this post-Victorian Fifth Avenue milieu, Lily Bart, an unmarried woman of 29 with dwindling prospects, needs a husband badly. She lives beyond her means, relying on the grudging charity of her elderly aunt. She is the kind of girl who would make an admirable decoration on some fine gentleman's arm, but there is a liveliness--a knowingness--in her eyes that alarms potential suitors. Lily is unsuccessful in her search for a haven, because she values her emotional and financial independence. To her eternal sorrow, it is other women, the doyennes of high society, who obliquely, ruthlessly, keep that independence forever out of poor Lily's reach.

MPAA rating: Rated PG for thematic material.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital surround, 2.0 Dolby digital surround; widescreen presentation, preserving the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.