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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a British TV film which aired in 2001, directed by Stephen Whittaker, based on the 1839 novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.
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Investigate this subjectThe Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (a.k.a. Nicholas Nickleby) is a British TV film which aired in 2001, directed by Stephen Whittaker, based on the 1839 novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (a.k.a. Nicholas Nickleby) is a British TV film which aired in 2001, directed by Stephen Whittaker, based on the 1839 novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.
In Variety, "some striking performances" were noted from James D’Arcy with "just the right dashing look for a young romantic hero, and he can emit his character’s empathy without a single wasted expression. The phrase “lighting up the screen” comes to mind, which is rare"; Charles Dance made a contrast with the other, especially evil, "broadly played (and well done in that vein)" characters, showing Ralph's cruelty as "composed and real, enabling the final twists to take on a tragic, human quality". Gregor Fisher and Lee Ingleby were also praised.
In The Dickensian, the reviewer noted that the focus was concentrated on Ralph, "the centre of a maelstrom of intrigues, which swirl round all the characters", and that Charles Dance displayed "chilling, reptilian authority", with "a fine gang of rogues - a zestful, demonic Squeers (Gregor Fisher), a splendid Arthur Gride... (Frank Mills) and a bragging Mulberry Hawk (Dominic West)". He observed that Smike "was a very interesting creation [which] deftly steered the difficult course between pathos and mawkishness". He found that Stephen Whittaker "swept things along. Scene followed scene, and sequences flashed by as the drama was taken at a good rattling pace, appropriate to the high days of the stage coach", although he felt that "Climaxes might have been better prepared, relationships better established and some fine dialogue preserved".
Costume designer Barbara Kidd won a Royal Television Society Award in 2001, and a BAFTA in 2002 for her work on this film.
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