Bleak House

Author

Charles Dickens

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Special ed. ; Widescreen version.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Gillian Anderson, Alun Armstrong, Charlie Brooks, Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Charles Dance, Phil Davis, Burn Gorman, Richard Harrington, Matthew Kelly, Patrick Kennedy, Denis Lawson, John Lynch, Anna Maxwell Martin, Alistair McGowan, Carey Mulligan, Nathaniel Parker, Natalie Press, Anne Reid, Ian Richardson, Hugo Speer, Liza Tarbuck, Johnny Vegas, Timothy West.

Publication Information

[London] : BBC Video : 2 Entertain Video ; [New York] : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, [2009]

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (ca. 465 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. Twines through the legal system to heartbreaking domestic drama to a murder investigation to near-Gothic horror.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Originally broadcast as a television mini-series on the BBC in 2005.

Bonus features: interviews with Gillian Anderson, Denis Lawson and Charles Dance; commentaries with writer Andrew Davies, producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and directors Justin Chadwick and Susanna White ; photo gallery.