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| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby [1982] | ![The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby [1982]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VABXN91PL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Jim Goddard, John Caird, Trevor Nunn
Actors: Alun Armstrong, Christopher Benjamin, Suzanne Bertish, Sharon Bower, Janet Dale
Studio: Metrodome Distribution
Category: DVD
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8747
Format: Box Set, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 503 minutes
Number Of Items: 3
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.7 x 1.1
EAN: 5055002551222
ASIN: B0000AM73S
Release Date: March 6, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 1983
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This INicholas Nickleby/I is not one of Hollywood's condensed versions, it's the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic eight-and-a-half-hour adaptation of the life and times of the eponymous school-teacher. The 1982 production (originally staged in two parts) won worldwide acclaim and was such a success that Britain's then-newest TV station, Channel 4, launched a joint venture with independent production company Primetime to bring INicholas Nickleby/I to a television audience. The result is this wonderfully theatrical version, filmed at the Old Vic and starring much of the original stage cast. It manages to stay true to Trevor Nunn's original artistic vision of Dickens's damning incitement of England's educational system. p The ensemble cast are superb: Roger Rees as Nicholas is a bright-eyed idealist, every inch the young romantic hero whose principles are often his downfall, but ultimately his salvation; Fulton Mackay's twisted, embittered Squeers is every inch the Dickensian villain; and David Threlfall is transformed as Smike, Squeers' piteously subjugated, crippled servant and gives the most moving performances of his career. p This enthralling TV adaptation recreates the magic of the stage version for all those who were unable to catch it on its pitifully short run. It doesn't pull any punches as the humour and inspiring storyline are tempered with real dark and tragic episodes. Forget the Hollywood fluff, this is the version you should watch if you want a faithful retelling of Dickens's story. --IKristen Bowditch/I
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Unbeatably joyful theatre December 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I naturally agree with the other reviewers here about the ensemble acting, the theatrical invention, everything. The thing is BURSTING with life, by turns hilarious, outraging and heart-wrenching; an 8.5-hour celebration of Dickens, goodness and theatre itself.br /br /I saw it 3 times on TV and once in the theatre (what a day!). When it finally appeared on DVD I flew at the shelves! I've watched it 2 or 3 times since then, and I just now (Christmas Eve) watched the entire thing again at one sitting. It chokes me up every time.br /br /Special mention also for the magnificent, stirring and character-filled music by Stephen Oliver.
GREAT!! December 8, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is the best adaptation of one of Dickens' classics that I have ever seen. I saw it once on t.v. in the United States and have never been able to find it since then. When a production can grab keep your interest while losing nothing, it is quite a feat. I just wish something like this was around when I had to read David Copperfield!
Finally found October 2, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This has been the true version of Nicholas Nickleby for me ever since I saw it on TV. I saved all the episodes on VHS, and then my son and nephew got hold of the tapes and recorded Knight Rider all over them. I could have cried.. but now I finally got hold of it again, and I'm thrilled!
How can people act like this?! December 29, 2003
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
The Royal Shakespeare Company's 'Nicholas Nickleby' is one of the things that have had the deepest effect on me. Almost 20 years ago I saw it on TV and finally decided to get this and see if it really was that great. It was. Better even. pOf course, Dickens' book is wonderful, the story and characters are marvellous and Trevor Nunn's adaption is amazing. And the cast then - WOW! As the others said, only Roger Rees has one part, Nicholas Nickleby, and it's easy to see it would be rather impossible to give him other parts, Nicholas being on stage so much. Others have several parts from opera singers to clouds and walls. (Thank you for the leaflet that has the cast and their roles) Rees is a bit old for his part but still creates a very believable, innocent Nicholas. On the other hand: schoolboys are all adults and such is great acting, that you don't want to laugh when they claim to be 7 or 8 years old. Smike is - of course - the most heartbreaking of them, twisted from head to toe, pale and crippled, o-u-t-cast, as he himself says. pThe Squeers family stands out, with excellent performances by Alun Armstrong as Mr. Squeers, Lila Kaye as Mrs. Squeers and later as Mrs. Crummles, another kind of 'femme formidable', and Suzanne Bertish, who has to envied and admired for such diverse and delicious parts as Fanny Squeers, Miss Snevellici and Peg Sliderskew, the old hag. They are horrible and wonderful and hilarious! And you don't wonder a bit, why the audience roars, when they get what they so rightly deserve. Alun Armstrong is the first in the closing credits, but he really deserves that place for more than alphabetical reasons. pUncle Ralph, John Woodvine, is chilling - and it's worth seeing him as an opera singer and just a few moments later as Ralph Nickleby again. And Newman Noggs with his wonderful, droopy face is priceless! I also enjoyed so much the short 'what has happened so far' -scenes at the beginning of acts.pThis is theatre at its best, I've never seen anything like this and - I'm afraid - will not see again. My only complaints are technical ones. The picture and sound are good, but why do we have to see the closing credits more than ten times? The acts have been cut into 2-3 parts, so that if you need to stop watching, you don't have to watch the whole act when you can resume watching - but still some of the parts are over 50 minutes long and if you need to stop, you have to fast forward to where you were. And every part ends with those credits. Fortunately you can skip them. Technical flaws aside, this is immortal.
Delighted to find this production of Nicholas Nickleby December 26, 2003
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I first saw this version of Nicholas Nickleby when it was televised by Channel 4 in 1982. I think it was at Christmas time. Indeed I recorded it, all nine hours on three brand new tapes. brImagine my distress some years later when I realised that the tape with the middle three hours of the story had vanished. Exactly where I shall never know but I suspect that someone just grabbed the tape when in a hurry to record something else. Little did they know what they were doing.br brThis was a stunning production in every way, futher enriched by recording the performance in the theatre in front of an audience. brAll the performances are superb and twenty years later, it still stands as perhaps one of the most memorable and richest viewing experiences I have ever had.
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