Search - Our Mutual Friend on DVD

Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 09/06/2005 Format: DVD - Color Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 5 hrs 51 mins Studio: BBC Warner Members Wishing: 12 Genres: Drama, Period Film

One of several British miniseries adaptations of Charles Dickens' novel -Our Mutual Friend, this four-part version debuted over the BBC in 1998. The production's generous running time (total: six hours), enabled scenarist Sandy Welch to include virtually every important detail in this complex Victorian-era saga of how a mysterious waterfront death inextricably linked the lives of two young women, Lizzie Hexam (Keeley Hawes) and Bella Wilfer (Anna Friel). The richness of the Dickensian prose was complemented by the visuals, which incorporated everything from documentary-style handheld camerawork to Eisenstein-ish montages, and by the eerily polytonal musical score by Adrian Johnston. Our Mutual Friend was brought to America courtesy of PBS beginning January 3, 1999. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Paul McGann - Eugene Wrayburn
Keeley Hawes - Lizzie Hexam
Anna Friel - Bella Wilfer
Steven Mackintosh - John Harmon