DVD
Little Dorrit
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Matthew Macfadyen, Claire Foy, Tom Courtenay, Alun Armstrong, Judy Parfitt, Emma Pierson, Ruth Jones, Sue Johnston, Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, James Fleet, Freema Agyeman.
Publication Information
Burbank, Calif. : BBC Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2009.
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (ca. 452 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after several years abroad, he becomes curious about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he discovers that the dark shadows of debt stretch far and wide in a web of desperation and deceit.
Notes
Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
Originally broadcast as a British television mini-series in 2008.
Contains all 14 episodes of the mini-series.
Special features: "Little Dorrit : an insight" featurette ; picture gallery.
Subjects
- Social classes > England > Drama.
- Women dressmakers > Drama.
- Poverty > Drama.
- Debt > Drama.
- Television adaptations.
- Television mini-series > Great Britain.
- Historical television programs.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- England > Social conditions > 19th century > Drama.
- London (England) > Drama.
- Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England) > Drama.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Film adaptations