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| Hard Times - by Charles Dickens - BBC - complete TV mini series | 
 enlarge | Director: Peter Barnes
Actors: Richard E. Grant, Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Harriet Walter, Bill Paterson
Studio: Just Entertainment
Category: DVD
Buy New: £18.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 25247
Format: Pal, Full Screen, Import
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 105 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
EAN: 8717344723138
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In Hard Times, Charles Dickens gives us a close-up look into what appears to be the ivory tower of the bourgeoisie of his day, yet these middle-class characters are viewed from a singular perspective, the perspective of those at the bottom of the social and economic system. Though Dickens characters tend to be well developed and presented with a thoroughly human quality, the stereotypical figure of arrogant and demanding Bounderby fails to accurately capture the motivations and attitudes of the typical successful businessman of the day and is an indication of the authors political motives. Hard Times, rather than presenting a historically accurate picture of the extraordinary changes brought about by the industrial revolution, is a one-sided attack on the utilitarian value system of the middle 19th century based upon emotional blue-collar appeals for labor sympathy that are not uncommon in todays corporate environment.
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HARD TIMES ( IMPORT ) REGION 2 September 4, 2007
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
HARD TIMES - BBC REGION 2 DVD RICHARD E GRANT br /The inhabitants of Coketown come to vivid life in this extraordinary BBC production of Dickens's dark treatise on capitalism without a conscience - a society in which everything is valued by price. Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind (Bob Peck) raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts and offer of marriage from his boss, the self-made, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby (Alan Bates), though she does not love him. But soon she finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse (Richard E. Grant). All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall. As Louisa faces a life without love and Tom's fate begins to turn even darker, will Gradgrind begin to realize begin to realize the imperfections in his philosophy of rational self-interest? br /br /DURATIONbr /105 minutes br /br /REGION 2 PAL OFFICIAL DUTCH RELEASEbr /Film Is In The Original English Language With Fully Removable Subtitles In Dutch br /DVD Case Partly In Dutch br /br /
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