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Nicholas Nickleby
- Director: Douglas McGrath
- Writer: Charles Dickens; Douglas McGrath
- Producer: Simon Channing Williams; Gail Egan
CGiii Comment
Star-studded quality and poor Charlie Hunnan is...way, way out of his league.
This great-looking, deftless actor has the luck of the Gods...finding work the way he does - he must have a great agent.
Liberties have been taken with the story and McGrath doesn't really know whether to play it as a comedy or the drama that it originally was...with Barry Humphries dragging it up, Nathan Lane camping it up and Alan Cumming flinging it up - one has to wonder...why?
It's an adaptation aimed squarely at the family audience - so, any mention of subtext between Nickleby and Smike will be resolutely denied...open your eyes, dear blinkered ones....Smike wanted to be bum-chums with pretty-boy Nick - it's all there in glorious Dickensian colour.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Young Nicholas and his family enjoy a comfortable life, until Nicholas' father dies and the family is left penniless. Nicholas, his sister and mother venture to London to seek help from their Uncle Ralph, but Ralph's only intentions are to separate the family and exploit them. Nicholas is sent to a school run by the cruel, abusive and horridly entertaining Wackford Squeers. Eventually, Nicholas runs away with schoolmate Smike, and the two set off to reunite the Nickleby family.
Cast & Characters
Stella Gonet as Mrs. Nickleby;
Andrew Havill as Mr. Nickleby;
Charlie Hunnam as Nicholas Nickleby;
Romola Garai as Kate Nickleby;
Tom Courtenay as Newman Noggs;
Christopher Plummer as Ralph Nickleby;
Anne Hathaway as Madeline Bray;
Jim Broadbent as Mr. Wackford Squeers;
Angela Curran as Parent;
Jamie Bell as Smike;
Juliet Stevenson as Mrs. Squeers;
Nathan Lane as Vincent Crummles;
Barry Humphries as Mrs. Crummles;
Alan Cumming as Mr. Folair;
Timothy Spall as Charles Cheeryble