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Bleak House (TV Miniseries)

Bleak House

2005

Justin Chadwick, Susanna White

Anna Maxwell Martin, Denis Lawson, Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance ...

7.3

320

TV Series. Drama TV Mini-series (2005). 15 episodes. Based on a Charles Dickens' novel. It tells the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn, who seeks to uncover it. The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe	"It's hard to know where to aim the praise first (...) Every quirky little character in 'Bleak House' has been expertly brought to life."	POS
United States	Alessandra Stanley The New York Times	"[It] is as pleasurable as its tale is grim (...) [A] loving tribute to Dickens and one of his greatest novels"	POS
United Kingdom	The Times	"There is no time for reflection or a fog-shrouded London panorama here. It's all intimate conversations and urgent editing (...) I feel a little smothered by its style but I'm hooked."	NEU
United Kingdom	Gerard O'Donovan Telegraph	"What differentiates this production from the standard TV Dickens is (...) the extraordinary clarity of Andrew Davies's adaptation"	POS
United Kingdom	The Independent	"Davies's decision to present 'Bleak House' in digestible half-hour chunks was a clever one (...) The result was by turns thrilling and confounding."	NEU

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