| Our Mutual Friend | 
 enlarge | Director: Julian Farino
Actors: Paul Mcgann, Keeley Hawes, Steven Mackintosh, Anna Friel, David Morrissey
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 3400
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 351 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DE2338D
ISBN: 1419814524
UPC: 794051233820
EAN: 9781419814525
ASIN: B0009PVZM8
Theatrical Release Date: January 3, 1999
Release Date: September 6, 2005
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Product Description
Critically acclaimed as Dickens' crowning achievement this sweeping tale of two turbulent love affairs plays out amidst a tangled web of wealth corruption passion and betrayal in 1860s London.Running Time: 354 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794051233820
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One of Charles Dickens' darkest yet also most romantic novels gets a lavish treatment in this BBC mini-series of Our Mutual Friend. The heir to a great fortune made from the garbage business is drowned--and his death affects everyone. His father's manager, Noddy Boffin (Peter Vaughan, Brazil), gets the money, to the alarm of snooty society. The man who pulled the heir's body out of the Thames is accused of his murder; his daughter, Lizzie Hexam (Keeley Hawes, Tipping the Velvet), finds herself pursued by both an idle gentleman (Paul McGann, Withnail & I) and an obsessed, violent schoolteacher (David Morrissey, Basic Instinct 2). The heir's intended bride, Bella Wilfer (Anna Friel, Me Without You, gets socially adopted by the Boffins, where she succumbs to the lure of money above all and spurns the interest of a mysterious stranger (Steven Mackintosh, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels). The plot creeps up and down London society like a tenacious plant, twining around a pair of golddiggers who mistakenly married each other and a heartsick bone merchant named Mr. Venus (Timothy Spall, Secrets & Lies). This excellent adaptation moves with aggressive speed, drawing the viewer into the grimy worlds of the riverside and the dust heaps and the glittering, gossiping parties of the rich. Our Mutual Friend balances one of Dickens' most entrancing love stories with his creepiest gothic turns--it's a rich stew of characters both earnest and vile, made with sumptuous production values and movie-quality cinematography. --Bret Fetzer
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 Awesome August 20, 2008
If you want to save yourself about 20 hours or so of reading, I highly recommend the movie. You do lose the story lines of a few characters such as Fledgby, Riah, the Veneerings, and the Podsnaps. And the Lammles, and Twemlow stories are greatly reduced but the flavor of the story is done very, very well in the movie.
In addition, there is a great amount of believable passion in the four main characters of two of the story lines. The actors made their characters tangible and relatable.
I think it is rare to see a movie follow the book so closely and come out great.
And might I add, may we all be like the Boffins.
wonderful August 12, 2008
Loved this movie! I started watching the BBC American movies and this one is one of my favorite ones.The journey it takes you into the characters is great. So many wonderful people and there love stories.Loved it
 Sorry, didn't get to view; bad dvd July 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have heard this movie was great and I love the classics; however, the package had been ripped open before it arrived and the carrier had to retape it. The dvd package looked fine, but the dvd would not play at all. Maybe next time.
 Our Mutual friend May 23, 2008
I purchased this just because it looked fun to watch. I was pleasantly surprised and delighted. It starts off a bit hard to understand, so be patient! After the first part, it all starts to come together a bit more and hooks you. The accents are sometimes so strong, I had a hard time understanding what they are saying. But it is a very good movie and you come to love the characters. I definitely recommend purchasing the movie.
Pretty amazing! February 22, 2008
This is one of my favorite Masterpiece Theater shows. I wore out my VHS tapes and went ahead and bought it on DVD. It doesn't have any special features to speak of, but it's the content of the movie that make it so cool.
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