Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Let's discuss the British-American filmed Nicholas Nickleby. The audience follows Nicholas throughout his life: from moving in with his cold hearted rich uncle, to being enslaved at a boys prep school to joining a troupe of actors.
Directed by Douglas McGrath
Based on the classic by Charles Dickens
Music by Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by Rachel Portman
Starring Charlie Hunnam as Nicholas, with an all-star supporting cast that consists of Jim Broadbent, Tom Courteney, Nathan Lane, Edward Fox, Dame Edna Everage, Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall, Jamie Bell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Cumming, David Bradley, Sophie Thompson, and CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER as Uncle Ralph
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 7, 2023 2:47 AM
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One of my favorite books and movies!
Nicholas Nickleby is forgotten about, but truly is Dickens best adventure.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 20, 2023 10:58 PM
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Christopher Plummer is the best Uncle Ralph.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 20, 2023 10:59 PM
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Eric Porter was the host in this box set of television versions which includes The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations. Porter himself plays Fagin in Oliver Twist.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 20, 2023 11:03 PM
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OT but it's fookin tragic that Hunnam lost his North-East accent.
Of all the regional dialects of Britain, Geordie & Mackem are two of the more melodious and sexy.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 20, 2023 11:13 PM
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R5 Charlie Hunnam comes from Newcastle, where the locals have Geordie accents.
He used to sound like this, until he moved into mainstream American film & TV, when he lost his broad charming native accent, and started to sound strange in a transatlantic way.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 20, 2023 11:38 PM
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R6 I thought only American actors wanted the mid-Atlantic accent
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 20, 2023 11:41 PM
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No one else has seen this movie?!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 21, 2023 1:12 AM
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Excellent film and cast, with two actors I will watch in anything: Timothy Spall and Jamie Bell. The editing of the plot makes hard decisions, but how could it not, yet it's not bad at conveying something of the scope of the thing.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 7, 2023 1:53 AM
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R11 Can you elaborate on the editing? I am half-way through the book. The book is huge and goes on and on.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 7, 2023 2:16 AM
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R12: I only meant that the wonderful thing about reading Dickens is the plot is huge and, as you say, goes on and on in many directions, and the bad thing of any Dickens story adapted as a film is that it doesn't. It can't. It either tries to present the full plot at breakneck speed or attempts something of the richness by selectively concentrating on a few scenes and aspects of plot. This film does the latter, but reasonably well I thought.
Thackeray is harder to adapt to film it seems. " Vanity Fair" is an amazing book for its rich scope and detail, but no one has made a film version that touches on the quality of the book. And "The Newcomes"...has anyone every bothered to try? (The extraordinary exception is Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon.")
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 7, 2023 2:34 AM
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R13 Yeah, I agree. The BBC mini-series of Dickens are great adaptations, but they can be a little boring.
Barry Lyndon is an excellent film. I think Michael Hordern's narration really helps.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 7, 2023 2:47 AM
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