Hard times [videorecording] / a BBC-TV Production in association with WGBH.
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[United States] : Burbank, CA :
BBC Video ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
2005.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: | Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind 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 an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Notes: | Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Special features: "The signalman." Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter, Richard E. Grant. Originally released as a television movie in 1994. Closed-captioned. Bib#: 1150989 |
| Format: | DVD, full screen (4x3) presentation; Dolby Digital. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Produced by Richard Langridge ; directed by Peter Barnes ; adapted by Peter Barnes ; music composed by Stephen Deutsch. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 1419814508 9781419814501 |
| Bib#: | 1150989 |
