Martin Chuzzlewit
by Pedr James
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Actor: Charlie Condou, Jimmy Gardner, Lynda Bellingham, Stephen Mapes, Sue WallaceDirector: Pedr James
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 334 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Home Video
Movie Reviews of Martin Chuzzlewit
Movie Review: BessWentworth
Summary: 2 Stars
While the sets, costuming and lighting were indeed gorgeous, the director dwelt almost entirely on Paul Scofield's witheringly biting delivery and on the comicality of different Dicken's characters. One is left without a soul with which to engage, and the story line suffers quite a bit, indeed. Style won over warmth, and halfway through this beautiful and lavish production, it's lack of real heart simply drove me away. I tried and tried, but just couldn't slog my way through. The book, however, I've read and throroughy enjoyed at least twice!
Summary of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit is an old man with a large fortune and an even larger set of family and friends. A portrait of greed and selfishness this magnificent adaptation of Dickens' comic masterpiece features an all-star cast.Running Time: 353 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY UPC:?794051233424Greed, selfishness, and hypocrisy drive another rollicking story from Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit features two Martin Chuzzlewits: An elderly and extremely wealthy one (the magnificent Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons), who loathes the sleazy, grasping relatives that hope to profit from his death; and his grandson (Ben Walden), a well-intentioned but self-absorbed young man who has fallen in love with his grandfather's ward, Mary Graham (Pauline Turner)--and because the elder Martin disapproves, the younger Martin has been disowned. In the gap between these two are a host of schemers, crooks, and even one or two good people--but at the center of it all is the pompous and oily Seth Pecksniff (Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), whose manipulations and lechery make him one of Dicken's most memorable villains. Whirling in his orbit are the goodhearted but ineffectual Tom Pinch (Philip Franks); the brutish Jonas Chuzzlewit (Keith Allen); Pecksniff's daughters, the "volatile hummingbird" Mercy (Julia Sawalha, Absolutely Fabulous) and the bitter, overlooked Charity (Emma Chambers, The Vicar of Dibley); and a host of other vivid Dickensian creations, all given juice and vitality by dozens of outstanding British actors, anchored by Scofield's magisterial presence. Because of his characters' outsized personalities and his plots' wild reversals of fortune, Dickens is ideally suited to dramatization, and Martin Chuzzlewit takes full advantage of his strengths. Lurid events like murder and blackmail contrast with rich psychological portraits, making Martin Chuzzlewit an opulent narrative feast. --Bret Fetzer
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