Hard times, produced by Peter Eckersley ; directed by John Irvin ; a co-production by Granada Television and WNET/13, v.2., Fullscreen
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Hard times, produced by Peter Eckersley ; directed by John Irvin ; a co-production by Granada Television and WNET/13, v.2., Fullscreen
Language
eng
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Main title
Hard times
Oclc number
83601135
Responsibility statement
produced by Peter Eckersley ; directed by John Irvin ; a co-production by Granada Television and WNET/13
Runtime
203
Summary
From the company that brought Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown, comes an adaptation that faithfully realizes Dickens' scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society. Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But she soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall
Technique
live action
resource.version
Fullscreen
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