Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Directors

Douglas McGrath

Cast

Stella Gonet, Andrew Havill, Hugh Mitchell, Poppy Rogers, Charlie Hunnam, Romola Garai, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Plummer, Anne Hathaway, Jim Broadbent, Angela Curran, Jamie Bell, Juliet Stevenson, Heather Goldenhersh, Lucy Davis, Helen Coker, Kevin McKidd, Edward Fox, Nicholas Rowe, Angus Wright, Nathan Lane, Barry Humphries, Alan Cumming, Eileen Walsh, Mark Wells, Phil Davis, Sophie Thompson, Timothy Spall, Gerard Horan, William Ash, David Bradley, Edward Hogg, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Amber Batty, Mark Dexter, Mark Meadows

The story

A prologue introduces the Nicklebys, country gentry who enjoy a comfortable life in the Devon countryside until the father dies and leaves his family with no source of income. Nineteen-year-old Nicholas, his mother, and his younger sister, Kate, venture to London to seek help from their wealthy, cold-hearted uncle Ralph, an investor who arranges for Nicholas to be hired as a tutor at Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire and finds Kate work as a seamstress. Nicholas is horrified to discover his employers, the sadistic Mr and Mrs Squeers, run their boarding school like a prison and physically, verbally, and emotionally abuse their young charges on a…

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