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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Watch With Your Kids, Scary Moments, Children in Peril, Suitable for Teens Movie Release: 1982 DVD Release: 09/24/2002 Format: DVD Edition: Restored/Remastered SwapaDVD Credits: 4 Number of Discs: 4 Run Time: 9 hrs 0 mins Studio: A&E Home Video Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Drama, Period Film See Also: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part 1, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part 2, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part 3, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part 4

Filmed in 1982, this Tony award winning production of Charles Dickens classic Nicholas Nickleby clocks in with an intimidating running time of nine hours, though it is considered to be one of the best adaptations of the original novel. Roger Rees plays the young Nicholas, who, along with his mother (Jane Downs), and sister (Emily Richard), are forced to seek financial assistance from Nicholas's smarmy uncle (John Woodvine). Ralph does provide Nicholas with a job, but it may have been kinder to leave him on the street--the school he has been sent to work for is run by a sadistic schoolmaster who delights in savagely beating his students. Nicholas leaves the school alongside Smike (David Threlfall), a limping, crooked-backed little boy who had been victim to much of the school's abusive policies. Once unemployed, Nicholas must find a way to to protect his family and come to terms with his own complicated emotions. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide

Roger Rees - Nicolas Nickleby
Emily Richard - Kate Nickleby
David Threlfall - Smike
John Woodvine - Ralph Nickleby
Jane Downs - Mrs. Nickleby

This four-pack of DVDs contains the London Royal Shakespeare Company's televised presentation of the Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby. The discs offer a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Supplemental materials include biographies and filmographies for the performers. This is a fine set of discs for those with an interest in the stage or the source material. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide