Little Dorrit
by Dearbhla Walsh, Adam Smith, Diarmuid Lawrence
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Actor: Alun Armstrong, Claire Foy, Judy Parfitt, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom CourtenayDirector: Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, Diarmuid Lawrence
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 452 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-04-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Product features:
- Acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House) brings to DVD an all new Dickens adaptation starring Academy Award Nominee Tom Courtenay (The Golden Compass), Matthew Macfadyen (MI-5, Pride and Prejudice) and newcomer Claire Foy (Being Human). This gripping new series brings to life Dickens's powerful story of struggle and hardship in 1820s London. When Arthur Clennam (Macf
DVD Reviews of Little Dorrit
DVD Review: little dorrit
Summary: 5 Stars
Wonderfully done. Gives a sense of how real people lived and not just the rich ones. DVD Review: Little Dorrit
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is in perfect condition. And it arrived within just a couple days of placing the order. Excellent job.DVD Review: First Class Dickens Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a beautifully acted and directed production of the Dickens Classic. The leads are handsomely played and wildly entertaining. I found myself riveted to each episode. The amazon price beats others by a mile. If you love period classics, you will love this newest version of Little Dorrit.DVD Review: Another series well done from Andrew Davies & the BBC!
Summary: 5 Stars
Delve into the exciting story of the Dorrits, with the head Dorrit long a prisoner in the famous Marshalsea Debtors Prison: his son & two daughters come often to visit him (one called Amy stays with him there), but they also work to gain money for all of their upkeep. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad in China, he goes on a quest to discover the truth about 'Little Dorrit', as Amy is called, who works as a seamstress for his mother, and particularly how her father came to be in the Marshalsea.
Filled with murderers, liars, deceit, destruction, cunning & much more, this story is filled to the brim with interesting and unique characters, as only Charles Dickens could give us: from rags to riches is this story, showing the best and worst of 1820's British society:
As always, I was a little reluctant to put this in to watch, as Dickens is almost always notoriously depressing at times ~ he did not disappoint in this instance, nor, I find, did Andrew Davies and the BBC...the whole thing was most excellently done! I was well pleased with the actors & actresses chosen, they played their parts well: the story was both intriguing and gripping, and I found that I just couldn't wait until the end to find out the truth that some characters were trying so very hard to hide.
For those of you worried about family-friendly content, in typical Dickens fashion this story is filled with evil characters, dark species of men, and wicked women: there lots of unsavory things going on, most of them revolving around murders, violence and betrayal! Everything was handled with taste, however, but I would not recommend this for the young: there is a bit of language, some violence, adult situations, lots of threatening of beatings, flirting, seduction, etc.
I would recommend this as another exceptionally well-done Dickens tale, with the full 452 minutes doing the story every bit of justice it deserves: not for the faint of heart, but this series is cut into little bit-sized 27 minute pieces (except for the 1st and Last Episode) ~ I greatly enjoyed this series!
DVD Review: DICKENS on hypocrites, snobs & cons; BLIMEY GOOD show
Summary: 5 Stars
"Dash my buttons!" A good dialogue line to use for this award-winner set in 1820's pre-Victorian London. Dickens wrote about class tiers within society, levels of wealth, and the injustices that caused. The Emmy writer, Andrew Davies, condensed the novel, reorganized it's events, and added dialogue into making a series actually considered by some to be better than the Dickens book. That it won 6 Emmys out of 16 BAFTA/EMMY nominations in 11 different area is endorsement enough.
Dickens style was not lost. The series includes the caravan of peculiar, grotesque, quirky, and funny characters; the names being equally odd: Flintwich, Pancks, Fanny Sparkler, Pet, Tattycoram, Chivery, Tip, Affery, & Tite Barnacle. Dickens suspense was mingled throughout the 14 episodes, with the overriding plot related to "Do not forget" inside a watch, and "Make it right" a dad's dying last words, which remains unrevealed till the end (unless you've read the book). Each individual episode ends with suspense, just like Dickens wrote it originally when published in magazine form.
Pure Dickens, but better. What fabulous scenes, sets, locations, costumes, hair, dialogue, props, cast, it's all perfection even Dickens would be proud of. You will fall in love with Amy, Little Dorrit (Claire Foy) much before Arthur (Matthew Macfadyen). What a delightful adventure into period drama, humor sprinkled, intoxicating, till you can feel the grime of Marshalsea Prison, and sparkle to the glamor of the rich in Venice. A sensual presentation of a rags-to-riches tale.
Was it fiction? The bonus material explains that Dickens father spent 14 weeks in the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, and Charles had to work in a factory at age 12 to help meet the financial needs. Dickens also had a mistress, an unhappy marriage, and well, how much of this is a Dickens bio? A very enlightening, and lengthy, bonus feature. ALso as a heLpfuL bonus is the subtitLes in EngLish for deaf, hearing impared, and oLde EngLish diaLogue chaLLenged; which utaLized aLL capitaL "L's" throughout the episodes for some siLLy reason.
So now I've added my 2-cents worth to a TV-series worth more than what is being asked in the purchase price. Before the credits were complete, my wife and I decided to start from the beginning for an immediate reviewing. It's that good.
By being reviewer #73 on this DVD set, it will be interesting to see how many truly get to reading this, but I found this adaptation of Dickens so well done that I had to offer my praise to all who helped make it possible, including "Charles."
PLease Leave a heLpfuL vote to heLp me count reader.
Description of Little Dorrit
Acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House) brings to DVD an all new Dickens adaptation starring Academy Award Nominee Tom Courtenay (The Golden Compass), Matthew Macfadyen (MI-5, Pride and Prejudice) and newcomer Claire Foy (Being Human). This gripping new series brings to life Dickens's powerful story of struggle and hardship in 1820s London. When Arthur Clennam (Macfadyen) returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstress, Amy Dorrit (Foy). His quest to discover the truth about "Little Dorrit" takes him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he discovers that the dark shadows of debt stretch far and wide. Filled with humorous yet tragic characters, Little Dorrit is a stirring rags to riches to rags story, exposing the underbelly of nineteenth century British society as only Charles Dickens can.Scandalous secrets, strangling bureaucracy, and crippling debts collide in the compelling BBC/Masterpiece Classic adaptation of Charles Dickens' weighty novel, which debuted in serial form in 1855. Mrs. Clennam (Judy Parfitt), a shut-in, kicks the complex storyline into action when she hires 21-year-old seamstress Amy Dorrit (newcomer Claire Foy, a warm and sympathetic presence) just days before her son, Arthur (Matthew Macfadyen, Pride & Prejudice), returns to London after 15 years at sea. Amy lives with her proud father, William (a heartbreaking Tom Courtenay), in Marshalsea, the debtor's prison where Dickens' own father did time. Despite his mother's denials, Arthur becomes convinced that there's a connection between the Clennams and the Dorrits, so he attempts to solve the mystery on his own, with help from sniveling rent collector Pancks (Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky) and hindrance from surly servant Flintwinch (Alun Armstrong, New Tricks) and the aptly-named Circumlocution Office.
Last filmed in 1988, Little Dorrit offers material--about greedy lenders and eager investors--ripe for reinterpretation. If the series doesn't surpass Bleak House, a high-water mark in Dickens adaptations, screenwriter Andrew Davies still does the author proud, despite a sketchy subplot concerning a miserable maid and her mysterious protector. But some things never change, and Dickens presents ample scene-stealing opportunities, of which Amanda Redman as a chilly socialite, Pam Ferris as a shallow governess, Russell Tovey as a lovesick suitor, and Andy Serkis as a Gallic psychopath--his creepiest character since Gollum--take full advantage. In the featurette, cast and crew provide a perceptive look at the making of this timely drama. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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