Hard Times
by Lawrence Gordon Clark
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Actor: Alan Bates, Beatie Edney, Bill Paterson, Bob Peck, Harriet WalterDirector: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: David Whitson
Editor: Peter Evans
Producer: Rosemary Hill
Writer: Andrew Davies
Writer: Charles Dickens
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E2336
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- This extraordinary production captures the soot and smoke that blot out the sun in dank, industry-choked Coketown. 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
Movie Reviews of Hard Times
Movie Review: strange but interesting
Summary: 5 Stars
This adaptation of the novel was done by the BBC for schools. What you get is essentially something like a filmed version of a stage play. The cast is excellent. The production made incredibly creative use of a very mimimal budget. But if your expecting a first-class production with a huge budget, look elsewhere.
Given the length of the work, the writers had to be very creative as far as how to fit the story together. The work has an almost dreamlike quality to it. Traditionalists will hate it but on every watching after the first I came to appreciate more what the people behind the production were trying to do.
There are low budget productions were people don't try. And then there are low budget productions where those involved go all out and surpass what they should have been able to deliver. This is definately in the second catagory.
Its not for everyone, but some will appreciate it.
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