Our Mutual Friend
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Movie Reviews of Our Mutual Friend
Movie Review: A Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my family's favorite films, bar none. We've watched it every year since it was broadcast in 1998 on PBS and each time is a special occasion. It's a beautiful, complex story, beautifully done! Everyone, down to the most minor character, has their own story to tell. How well they are told, indeed, and what a tapestry is made when all the stories are put together! It's exciting, moving, full of horror, romance and nobility, not to mention DARN good acting. So far, it's our favorite BBC/Masterpiece Theater drama besides Pride and Prejudice (and for some of us, we like it even better).Movie Review: BBC does it again-STELLAR!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow that movie came closer to making me cry than any other i have ever seen :) I watched it like 3times in one week. I feel like a girl saying that, but oh well. BBC OWNS american movies.
The adaptation, scripting, casting and acting are all extraordinary. BUY IT!! I only wish I had seen it when it first came out, along with alot of other BBC old-english adaptations, somehow it's kind of sad to be watching stuff that came out several years ago... but it is a classic. I highly recommend this and all other BBC old-english novel adaptations on this site.
Movie Review: Romance and Squalor
Summary: 5 Stars
I have not finished this program yet but it's wonderful!! I feel like I am living in the novel. The actors are perfect for the characters. The contrast between the poor who live in miserable conditions and the wealthy and their parties is amazing. I like the scene of a pampered dog drinking from a silver dish at a fashionable party!
The noblest characters seem to be the poor people.The Boffins are especially wonderful.
Although the production is long, I am eager to get to the next part. I'm surprised that this novel was not popular during Dickens' life.
Movie Review: Panoramic view of a cultured and tortured society
Summary: 5 Stars
"Our Mutual Friend" affords the viewer with a panoramic view of a cultured and tortured society seen through the eyes of various people who dwell in the stratas of the class system. This is a fresh exquisitely masterful telling of yet another Dickens tale. It's all there: high drama, comedy, pathos; in short, the screenwriter does not dilute the Dickens effect.....Lord, don't we cherish him(or her) for that! If you hate period pieces, are not impressed by grandiose sets and billowing costumes, see this for the acting alone, which is impeccable. Need I say more?Movie Review: Depressing, but educational.
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to thank God you live now and not some other time in history, watch this movie. The poor are forced to look in dust fields for treasures for their not as poor employers. That's what I remember most about OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. However, I think it's supposed to be a romance, but with the hundreds of characters I couldn't follow all the plotlines on the 1st viewing. I'll watch it again, but it's hard to make myself because of the poverty and misery. I gave it 5 stars because of the overall quality of the DVD, not necessarily because I loved the plot.