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The diary of a nobody

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  • DVD COMEDY (CEN)

Performers

Hugh Bonneville.

Publication Information

Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [2009]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 116 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Mr. Charles Pooter is a middle-aged, middle-class city clerk in late Victorian England who chronicles his daily domestic and social frustrations. Home improvements, petty humiliations, accidents involving an iron boot scraper, tiffs with his wife Carrie, pained encounters with their mildly rebellioius son Lupin, visits from friends Mr. Cummings and Mr. Gowing: all are reported on by the pompous Pooter in hilarious detail.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the novel by George and Weedon Grossmith.

Originally broadcast on British television as a four-episode mini-series in 2007.

Special features: Biography of authors George and Weedon Grossmith ; Hugh Bonneville filmography.

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