The consummate storytelling and richly drawn characters of one of literature's greatest chroniclers of the human condition make Douglas McGrath's adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby" a delightful ...
Like the Dickens novel on which it’s based, director Douglas McGrath’s “Nicholas Nickleby” overcomes the earnest blandness of its eponymous hero with wonderful side characters. First and foremost is ...
The American director Douglas McGrath, who gave us Gwyneth Paltrow in Emma, continues his sojourn through English literature with Charles Dickens’Nicholas Nickleby. The novel is something of a ...
The world might not need another television adaptation of a Dickens novel, but here comes one more anyway, a fine English mini of "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" on Bravo. The world ...
Nickleby Senior had not been a very ambitious man, although he was a loving and dedicated father. His penniless family now has no recourse but to leave their country home and head for London. There, ...
WHO: “Nicholas Nickleby” stars Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell and Heather Goldenhersh. Also at the party, Michael Stipe, Heather Matarazzo U.A. chief Bingham Ray and Matt Dillon “Welcome to the Dollhouse” ...
Those who seek a polar opposite to Michael Caine’s kind-but-firm patriarch Dr. Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules will find it in Jim Broadbent’s horrid, one-eyed headmaster, Wackford Squeers, in ...
Including intermissions and a dinner break, the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1980 stage production of the Charles Dickens classic "Nicholas Nickleby" clocked in at almost ten hours.?I suppose ...
One of Charles Dickens' best-loved (and most complex) stories. Nicholas Nickleby is a 19-year-old who becomes the head of the family when his father dies unexpectedly. Keeping watch over his mother ...