Nicholas Nickleby / (Sub) PG
SUPER SAVINGS: | $26.70 Limited Time Only |
List Price: |
|
You Save: | $3.25 (11% Off) |
Available:
Usually ships in 2-4 business days
Brand New
|
Related products:
Sense and Sensibility
for $12.70
Howards End
for $23.10
Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Released: January 18, 2022
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Sandpiper Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jamie Bell & Charlie Hunnam | |
Performer: | Anne Hathaway, Edward Fox, Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Nathan Lane, Christopher Plummer, Alan Cumming, Barry Humphries & Juliet Stevenson | |
Directed by | Douglas McGrath | |
Screenwriting by | Douglas McGrath | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Produced by | Robert Kessel, Michael Hogan, Simon Channing Williams, Robert How & Jeff Sharp |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Swift, engaging entertainment....The director has produced a colorful, affecting collage of Dickensian moods and motifs...
New York Times
...Much of it is enormously entertaining...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
...With wonderful side characters. First and foremost is Nathan Lane....Accompanying Lane gloriously is Barry Humphries...
Los Angeles Times
...This mid-19th century tale of survival after death of a parent is still compelling today, and its message of strength and the importance of family continues to resonate...
USA Today
...Christopher Plummer steals the show....It's a great performance....Lively fun...
Rolling Stone
...Positively brisk, sparkling....[McGrath] manages the feat by keeping the flavors of the book piquant...
Entertainment Weekly
...This is Dickens with an emphasis on the picturesque and entertaining, and McGrath's cast is game for it...
Premiere
...McGrath constructs a lean, fast-moving fable where good triumphs over evil and the cruel and heartless get their just desserts...
Total Film
Product Description:
Writer-director Douglas McGrath indulges his taste for the classics again, having made his feature film debut with Jane Austen's EMMA (1996), then changing pace with an underrated original comedy COMPANY MAN (2000), and back again with Dickens's classic NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. Common Dickensian themes of poverty, social class, and honor come across clearly in this tale of a 19-year-old country gentlemen (Charlie Hunnam) who is suddenly impoverished when his beloved father dies after losing his fortune. Nicholas, with his mother (Stella Gonet) and sister Kate (Romola Garai), find themselves at the mercy of their rich, loutish uncle Ralph Nickleby (Christopher Plummer) who delights only in their misery. He sends Nicholas away to work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, a decrepit boarding school attended by sad, soiled, abused urchins. Meanwhile, Kate's reputation is at stake with uncle Ralph trying to marry her off to a foulmouthed client to whom he owes a debt. With the help of his faithful sidekick Smike (Jamie Bell), Nicholas avenges Kate's honor and conspires with some new friends to bring down horrid uncle Ralph.
Other filmmakers have attempted to show Dickens' timelessness with modern versions of novels, such as Alfonso Cuaron's GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1998) or even Richard Donner's SCROOGED (1988). McGrath provides a period portrait of which Dickens would no doubt approve. The principle strength here is a large ensemble of fine character actors such Jim Broadbent as the delightfully amoral headmaster Wackford Squeers, the deliciously terrifying Juliet Stevenson as Mrs. Squeers and Nathan Lane as the benevolent dreamer Vincent Crummles.
Other filmmakers have attempted to show Dickens' timelessness with modern versions of novels, such as Alfonso Cuaron's GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1998) or even Richard Donner's SCROOGED (1988). McGrath provides a period portrait of which Dickens would no doubt approve. The principle strength here is a large ensemble of fine character actors such Jim Broadbent as the delightfully amoral headmaster Wackford Squeers, the deliciously terrifying Juliet Stevenson as Mrs. Squeers and Nathan Lane as the benevolent dreamer Vincent Crummles.
Keywords:
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,373
- UPC: 850035985069
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item