Nicholas Nickleby (Special Edition)
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Alan Cumming, Anne Hathaway, Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Nathan Lane Director: Douglas McGrath Brand: BELL,JAMIE Producer: Simon Channing Williams DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 132 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: MGM Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Nicholas Nickleby (Special Edition)
Movie Review: American Nickleby ruins a Dickens classic
Summary: 1 Stars
I was attracted to this film by the director Douglas McGrath whose past films include Austen's Emma starring Gwyneth Paltrow. No sooner had the hero Nicholas Nickleby, played by Charlie Humman, opened his mouth I was cringing. Talk about a poor excuse for an English accent! Maintaining this accent seemed to consume all of his energies as his expressions ranged from A to B. The character of Nickleby requires an actor of strong presence and maturity beyond his 19 years. It is an story of inexplicable abuses and hardships. The blond haired blue eyed feminine Humman seemed incongruous to the bleak Dickensian landscape. His relationship with the crippled boy Smike bordered on the homosexual with the wetness in the way in which Humman would touch and look at his friend. This is obviously unintentional as Nickleby and Smike are brought together by the need to survive and their friendship is one of the strongest in any of Dickens' novels. The British actors Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent and Jamie Bell to name but a few act American leads Charlie Humman and Anne Hathaway off the stage. The exception is the American Nathan Lane who steals the show as the eccentric travelling thesbian. It is unfortunate that what had the potential to be a highly successful film, like Emma before it, was completely ruined by poor casting.