Pros: Wonderful story and excellent performances all around. Cons: ~none~
My son and I saw this film last week. I'll first give you a little background information. I was an English Literature major in college and believe me, I read a lot of literature, but somehow missed this Charles Dickens classic, so I had only a vague...
Pros: Great cast. Fun characters. Fine production values. Made me want to read the book. Cons: Everything seems truncated. Nothing seems full. The leads are bland.
[Oscar season is exhausting. So many movies. So little time. On the bright side, I'm only paying to see some of these movies and most of them are pretty good, but still...]
We respond to adaptations of beloved novels in a variety of ways that...
Pros: A sweetly romantic, contemporary updating with fine performances Cons: Purists may feel that Dickens has been reduced to a Trivial Pursuit
In this surprisingly lighthearted version of Charles Dickens' classic story, writer/director Douglas McGrath ("Emma," "Bullets Over Broadway") focuses on the realities of Victorian life, particularly the extended family, which he defines as a group...
Pros: Factually a grand movie. Parts well played. Good modern adaptation Cons: Some parts of this film were too chopped to fully display Dickens characters.
It is always good to see an adequate interpretation of Dickens works. The problem with many Anglo-Americans viewing this film is that they have little knowledge if 19th century England.
Yet, even without having a great literary...
Format: DVD, Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens's classic tale springs to life in this animated re-telling of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY set in Victorian England. The young hero Nicholas stan...
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