House of Joy

Poor, poor Lily Bart! This girl is positively blessed with the time when she was born. This is New York in 1905, and position in society is far more than even we can assume. Trying not to stand out from the circle, Lily (Gillian Anderson) begins to play bridge, but in some mysterious way manages to climb deep into debt. Living in a house of her aunt (Eleanor Bron), Lily can not earn and does not want to repay in kind, though this and want her many fans - she wants to find a husband, to whom most of these problems can be easily shifted. Life, however, an unfair thing, and that ill-fated card debt is only the beginning of the fall of our heroine at the very bottom.