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You are in: Our Mutual Friend [1998]
starring:
Paul McGann,
Keeley Hawes,
Steven Mackintosh,
Anna Friel,
David Morrissey,
Peter Vaughan,
Pam Ferris,
Kenneth Cranham,
Timothy Spall,
Dominic Mafham,
Margaret Tyzack,
David Bradley (IV),
David Schofield,
Paul Bailey (II),
Katy Murphy,
Doon Mackichan,
Anthony Calf,
Peter Wight,
Heather Tobias,
Catriona Yuilldirected by:
Julian Farino
List Price: £19.99Price: £11.92
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: VHS Tape
Brand: BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING
EAN: 5014503646424
Format: Box set, HiFi Sound, PAL
Label: BBC
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: BBC
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC
Release Date: June 01, 2026
Running Time: 360 minutes
Studio: BBC
Theatrical Release Date: January 03, 2026
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Dickens was the master of Victorian social satire, ruthlessly exposing the cruelty and absurdity that supported the strictly hierarchical class-structure of the day. This superb production of Our Mutual Friend does full justice to his darkest, most complex novel, fleshing out the satirical bones of the plot with performances that eschew caricature in favour of psychological depth. Anna Friel's Bella is wonderfully complex, her innate goodness struggling with her love of money and desire for advancement. Paul McGann, as the lawyer Wrayburn, is also superb, wrestling with the implications of his feelings for Lizzie. And of course, this being Dickens and the BBC, there's a terrific supporting cast, including Timothy Spall as the melancholy articulator of skeletons, Mr Venus. As the fortunes of the characters rise and fall, the river Thames flows eternally on, the symbolic backbone of this remarkable story. At six hours, this version of Our Mutual Friend is a long production, but not a moment too long. A mystery, a love story, a critique of the pursuit of wealth and status, this is perhaps the best adaptation of Dickens ever to be committed to film. --Simon Leake, Amazon.com
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Simply the best Dickens adaption [big or small screen], that includes the recent 'Bleak House'. It's fairly obvious that somebody has read the book and extracted all the important plot strands and meaning and put them into a fantastic 3 hours of telly. Seeing Rogue Riderhood on the screen is an absolute joy. There are some big name actors/actresses in this but it doesn't detract. If you like your drama to be intelligent with meaning then you will enjoy this.
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Lizzi and her father earn their money with recovering corpses from the Thames. One night they find a drowned young man. It is Mr Harmon who just came back from the colonies to collect his vast inheritance. Old Mr Harmon's lawyer Lightwood and his friend Wrayburn appear on the scene, to have a look at the corpse. And Wrayburn casts an eye on Lizzie ... Lizzie's father is soon suspected of having murdered the young man, but before he can be put in jail he drowns in the river himself and Lizzie is all ... Read More
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I just want to put in a word for the crew that filmed, lit and designed this. It is ravishing and the attention to detail is astonishing. At almost any point you can freeze-frame the action and the result is like something you'd see in the National Gallery. Technically this is by far the best thing the BBC has done for years.
It's also much blacker than Dickens usually is, despite being basically, a happy tale. The blackness, especially in the first half, comes from painstakingly researched ... Read More
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A beatifull adaption of a less known Dicken's book. Slow beginning which works wonderfully. By the second episode all the characters are wonderfully interwoven. My favourite being the love struck Mr Venus. All the actors are well cast. I wish I can find fault but I can't. The additional material ( the historical background to the book) is the icing on the cake
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Like the BBC adaptation of David Copperfield, this film is just great. Based on the Charles Dickens novel, Our Mutual Friend is a tale of Lizzie and her father who struggle along, earning a living on the banks of the Thames. That is until one day they find a body which links them to the world of money and the household of the Wilfers.
Overall this is a great adapation of a great novel and i recommend this film to fans of Dickens, or anyone in search of an entertaining movie that you can watch ... Read More