Rent David Copperfield (1999)
3.8 of 5 from 64 ratings
2h 59min
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- Synopsis:
- And here Dickens' own favourite and most enduring novel bursts onto the screen in a dazzling adaptation, with a truly world-class cast bringing alive some of the most famous characters in fiction. Bob Hoskins as the ever-optimistic Mr Micawber; Maggie Smith as David's fearsome aunt, Betsey Trotwood; Trevor Eve as the sadistic Mr Murdstone; Nicholas Lyndhurst as sly, sinister Uriah Heep; Pauline Quirke as David's loyal friend and servant, Peggotty; and featuring Ciaran McMenamin as David, with Marry Lloyd (the 15 year old descendent of Charles Dickens himself) as the young Steerforth.
- Actors:
- Daniel Radcliffe, Trevor Eve, Michael Elphick, James Thornton, Alun Armstrong, Patsy Byrne, Laura Harling, Zoë Wanamaker, Jacqueline Tong, Karl Johnson, Ian McKellen, Harry Lloyd, Steve Swinscoe, Thomas Maher, Bob Hoskins, Peter Sproule, Imelda Staunton, Paul Whitehouse, Brian Abbott, Jake Nightingale
- Directors:
- Simon Curtis
- Producers:
- Kate Harwood
- Narrated By:
- Tom Wilkinson
- Writers:
- Charles Dickens, Adrian Hodges
- Studio:
- BBC
- Genres:
- Children & Family, British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas
- Collections:
- People of the Pictures, Remembering Maggie Smith, Remembering Tom Wilkinson
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Reviews (1) of David Copperfield
BRILLIANT version of Dicken's 1820s/30s-set autobiography from 1999 mercifully free of woke - David Copperfield review by PV
This is a superb adaptation with a top cast. Daniel Radcliffe is great as a 10 year old actor in part 1.
I almost cried in joy at seeing NO colourblind casting in this drama. Just shows the sad decline of UK TV drama in the last 25 years. It is NOT progress to cast BAME as white characters in period drama when hardly any black/brown people lived in the UK (only 6000 in 1939!). It is racism. AND double standards - whenever there is an Asian/African story the demand is AUTHENTIC CASTING and never colourblind casting.
I demand AUTHENTIC CASTING again in UK TV drama, to, to cleanse it of the curse of colourblind casting. I refuse to watch modern drama with it. Just that. As do many seeing the plummeting TV drama ratings and all the woke metoo box office fails too.
It makes me so sad to see what has happened in just 25 years BUT we still have the archive such as this superb adaptation.
Watch this, not the dreadful boring 2019 film which casts an Asian actor of colour as David Copperfield/Charles Dickens. Like casting Ed Sheeran as Nelson Mandela or Tony Hopkins as Gandhi,. NO NO NO!
5 stars for this one.
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