Little Dorrit is a 2008 British miniseries based on Charles Dickens's serial novel of the same title, originally published between 1855 and 1857. The screenplay is by Andrew Davies and the episodes were directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence.
Little Dorrit is a 2008 British miniseries based on Charles Dickens's serial novel of the same title, originally published between 1855 and 1857. The screenplay is by Andrew Davies and the episodes were directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence.
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Little Dorrit is a 2008 British miniseries based on Charles Dickens's serial novel of the same title, originally published between 1855 and 1857. The screenplay is by Andrew Davies and the episodes were directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence.
The series was a joint production of the BBC and the American PBS member station WGBH Boston. It originally was broadcast by BBC One and BBC HD, beginning on 26 October 2008 with a 60-minute opening episode, followed by 12 half-hour episodes and a 60-minute finale. In the United States, it aired in five episodes as part of PBS's Masterpiece series between 29 March and 26 April 2009. In Australia, episodes were combined into seven-parts on ABC1 each Sunday at 8:30pm from 27 June 2010 and has since been repeated on UKTV.
The series won seven Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries.
Since her birth in 1805, Amy Dorrit has lived in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt for twenty-one years, caring for her father, William, who now enjoys a position of privileged seniority as the Father of the Marshalsea. Amy works as a seamstress for Mrs. Clennam, a cranky, cold and forbidding semi-invalid living in a crumbling home with servants, the sinister Jeremiah Flintwinch and his bumbling wife, Affery.
Mr. Clennam and his son Arthur have been handling the family business in China for 15 years. On his deathbed, he asks his son "put it right" with his mother and hands Arthur a pocket watch. On his return to England, Arthur gives his mother the watch, which she opens and takes out a bit of cloth containing the words "Do not forget."
Arthur is enamoured of the beautiful Minnie (Pet) Meagles, who prefers aspiring artist, Henry Gowan, to her parents' distress. Arthur befriends Amy and wonders whether his mother's uncharacteristically benevolent attitude towards her indicates his family may be responsible for the Dorrits' misfortunes. Amy falls in love with Arthur, and John Chivery, who guards the prison with his father, watches in dismay because he loves Amy.
Amy's brother, Tip, falls into debt and joins his father in prison. Arthur pays his debt anonymously; but Amy guesses, whilst Tip is ungrateful. Arthur tries to discover why Dorrit was originally confined to the Marshalsea and asks rent collector and amateur detective, Mr. Pancks, to investigate. John Chivery proposes to Amy, who declines, upsetting both fathers and threatening Dorrit's privileged position. Unaware of Amy's love, Arthur proposes to Pet, who tells him she plans to marry Gowan. He meets inventor-engineer Daniel Doyce, and they become partners.
Mrs. Clennam asks Flintwinch to destroy a box of papers she has kept for years, but he gives the box to his twin brother Ephraim instead. Ex-convict and murderer Rigaud meets Ephraim in a pub and observes how tightly he is holding onto the box. He gets Ephraim drunk, murders him, and takes the papers, which reveal a Clennam family secret.
Pancks discovers that Dorrit is heir to a fortune. Now wealthy, Dorrit leaves the Marshalsea and insists his family forget their "shameful past" and everyone connected to it, snubbing and insulting Arthur. He hires Mrs Hortensia General to educate his daughters and prepare them for society. They all depart on a Grand Tour of Europe, but Amy cannot adapt to the new lifestyle. Amy's sister, Fanny, is courted by Edmund Sparkler, step-son of wealthy financier, Mr. Merdle. At Pancks' suggestion, Arthur invests the Doyce & Clennam funds in Merdle's bank.
Dorrit returns to England and asks Merdle for advice on "prudent investment". Merdle agrees to invest Dorrit's fortune as a family favour. Still tormented by prison memories and losing touch with reality, Dorrit returns to Italy to propose to Mrs General. She interrupts his impetuous proposal but implies future acceptance. At an elegant ball held by Mrs. Merdle, who is also in Italy, Dorrit addresses the attendees as "the Father of the Marshalsea" and completely reverts to his former role. Amy and Dorrit's brother Frederick escort him back to their rooms, where he persists in his delusion and dies. Mrs. General has departed, and Frederick is found dead at his brother's side the next morning.
Amy returns to London, where she is accommodated by Fanny, who has married Sparkler, largely to spite his mother Mrs. Merdle. While Merdle has been regarded as a financial genius and "the man of the age," his suicide reveals that his bank is a Ponzi scheme. Thousands are ruined, including Arthur, who chooses to enter the Marshalsea rather than flee the country. After showing him to Dorrit's old room, John Chivery angrily reveals to Arthur that Amy loves him. A despondent Arthur is shocked to receive a visit from Rigaud, who tells him "I know all about you," and could destroy the Clennam family business. After Rigaud's departure, Arthur becomes ill with a dangerous fever. He wakens from his delirium to find he is being nursed by Amy. She offers to pay his debts out of her inheritance, but he refuses.
Rigaud returns to Mrs. Clennam and reveals what he learned from the documents. Her cruel attitude drove her husband to infidelity, which resulted in the birth of Arthur, whom Mrs. Clennam raised as her own, with no motherly feeling. When Arthur's birth mother died, his paternal grandfather bequeathed money to Amy, who was born in the Marshalsea the day Arthur's birth mother died. Rigaud demands £2,000 to keep silent, but Mrs. Clennam rises from her wheelchair and leaves her house for the first time in years, stumbling to the Marshalsea. She finds Amy, reveals the truth, and begs forgiveness. As she returns to her dilapidated house with Amy's assistance, the building collapses, killing Rigaud. Mrs. Clennam falls to the ground and dies, while Flintwinch emerges from the ruins and runs away.
The Dorrits learn that all their money was invested with Merdle and is lost. Now that Amy is penniless, Arthur accepts her, and they declare their mutual love. Daniel Doyce return