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VIDEO RELEASE
Jul 22, 2003 (VHS)
Jul 22, 2003 (DVD)
NUMBERS
Box Office: $1,309,849
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CONSENSUS
A delightful if abridged adaptation of Dickens’ novel.
CAST & CREW
Charlie Hunnam, Anne Hathaway, Barry Humphries
Directed by Douglas McGrath
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SYNOPSIS
Writer-director Douglas McGrath indulges his taste for the classics again, having made his feature film debut with Jane Austen's EMMA (1996), then changing pace with an underrated original comedy COMPANY MAN (2000), and back again with Dickens's classic NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, thematic material involving some violent action and a childbirth scene
RUNTIME
2 hours, 12 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 27, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Dramas, Adventure, Exploitation, Family (General), Family Life, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Nicholas Nickleby Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
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PRODUCTION NOTES
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 "Essentially, the film is weak on detail and strong on personality"
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "Like Dickens with his passages, McGrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel."
-- Kim Williamson, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby does Dickens as it should be done cinematically."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"An unbelievably fun film just a leading man away from perfection."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"Whenever you think you've seen the end of the movie, we cut to a new scene, which also appears to be the end. But, no, we get another scene, and then another. You begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Humorous and heartfelt, Douglas McGrath's version of 'Nicholas Nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful. Not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Many shallower movies these days seem too long, but this one is egregiously short."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"McGrath has deftly trimmed Dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera, the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"May be Dickens Lite, but taken on its own slick, genteel terms it's a surprisingly winning confection...a film of wit and style."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"This is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the Cliff-Notes over reading a full-length classic."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"The delicious trimmings…arrive early and stay late, filling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow, some impudent snickers, and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a Scrooge or two."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
"Director Douglas McGrath takes on Nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading."
-- Audrey Rock-Richardson, TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN (UTAH)
"This Nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an Eddie Murphy film. And just when you think it can't get any more gay, in pops Nathan Lane."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
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"The tasteful little revision works wonders, enhancing the cultural and economic subtext, bringing richer meaning to the story's morals."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, DALLAS OBSERVER
"Wow, so who knew Charles Dickens could be so light-hearted?"
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"...just another period piece with some rather good moments."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Nicholas Nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting Dickensian decency that it turned me (horrors!) into Scrooge."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
""Nicholas Nickleby" is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new "A Christmas Carol" out in the theaters this year. Charlie Hunnam has the twinkling eyes, repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a Dickensian hero."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"A lovely film for the holiday season."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"The project honors [Dickens'] passionate voice, and the strong ensemble cast sees us through a few tonal shifts."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Highlights are the terrific performances by Christopher Plummer, as the prime villain, and Nathan Lane as Vincent Crummles, the eccentric theater company manager."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"Extremely well cast, especially in the large number of supporting roles."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"This isn't just the CliffsNotes version of Nicholas Nickleby, it's the CliffsNotes with pages missing."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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Avg. Rating: 7.2/10 |
"To paraphrase a line from another Dickens' novel, Nicholas Nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"The entire movie has a truncated feeling, but what's available is lovely and lovable."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Unwieldy contraption."
-- Jessica Winter, VILLAGE VOICE
"With Dickens' words and writer-director Douglas McGrath's even-toned direction, a ripping good yarn is told."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as Nicholas' wounded and wounding Uncle Ralph. It's a great performance and a reminder of Dickens' grandeur."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"The director has produced a colorful, affecting collage of Dickensian moods and motifs, a movie that elicits an overwhelming desire to plunge into 900 pages of 19th-century prose."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Trust and deceit, generosity and meanness are fleshed out by a deft cast."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"A beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps Dickens evergreen: the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions."
-- Richard Schickel, TIME MAGAZINE
"The film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by Christopher Plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil Uncle Ralph I've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"A delightful experience."
-- David Rooney, VARIETY
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"Having never been a huge fan of Dickens' 800-page novel, it surprised me how much pleasure I had watching McGrath's version."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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