Bleak House (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Movie · 391 min. · United Kingdom
At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs.; Esther Summerson, a child with a mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle, including the proud Lady Dedlock, who finds herself persecuted by a menacing lawyer. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels.
Direction Ross Devenish
Cast Diana Rigg · Denholm Elliott · Suzanne Burden · Lucy Hornak · Peter Vaughan · Philip Franks · Bernard Hepton · T.P. McKenna · Jonathan Moore · Chris Pitt · Robin Bailey · Sylvia Coleridge · Sam Kelly · Pamela Merrick · Graham Crowden · Samantha Holland
Soundtrack Geoffrey Burgon
Screenplay Arthur Hopcraft · Charles Dickens
Cinematography Kenneth MacMillan
Original title Bleak House
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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