Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit was intended as the cinematic equivalent to the mammoth, eight hour Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Dickens' +Nicholas Nickelby. The film was released to theatres in two parts, each running approximately three hours. The first part, subtitled "Nobody's Fault," introduced us to ...more

Seldom does a film harmonize cinematography, performances, and script as skillfully as this highly acclaimed 1988 adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel, -Little Dorrit. The movie is a two-part, six-hour drama centering on the fate of the bankrupt Dorrit family living in a debtor's prison at Marshalsea across the Thames River from central London. Director Christine Edzard, the daughter of two painters, turns London into a canvas of gloomy grays and sullen shadows to suggest the plight ...more