Bleak house

Resource Information

The work Bleak house represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Bleak house

Statement of responsibility

by Charles Dickens ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White

Creator

• Bleak house (2005)

Contributor

• BBC Video (Firm)
• BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Anderson, Gillian, 1968-
• Armstrong, Alun
• Brooks, Charlie, 1981-
• Chadwick, Justin
• Clarke, Warren, 1947-2014
• Collins, Pauline, 1940-
• Dance, Charles
• Davies, Andrew, 1936-
• Davis, Philip, 1953-
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Gorman, Burn, 1974-
• Harrington, Richard, 1975-
• Kelly, Matthew
• Kennedy, Patrick, 1977-
• Lawson, Denis
• Lynch, John, 1961-
• Maxwell Martin, Anna, 1978-
• McGowan, Alistair, 1964-
• Mulligan, Carey, 1985-
• Parker, Nathaniel, 1962-
• Press, Natalie
• Reid, Anne
• Richardson, Ian, 1934-2007
• Speer, Hugo
• Stafford-Clark, Nigel
• Tarbuck, Liza, 1964-
• Vegas, Johnny, 1971-
• West, Timothy
• White, Susanna

Subject

• Actions and defenses -- England -- Drama
• England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama
• Fiction television programs
• Murder -- Investigation -- England -- Drama
• Orphans -- England -- Drama
• Procedure (Law) -- England -- Drama
• Television adaptations
• Television melodramas
• Television mini-series
• Thrillers (Television programs)
• Thrillers (Television programs)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Drama
• Fiction television programs
• Television adaptations
• Television melodramas
• Television mini-series
• Thrillers (Television programs)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. Twines through the legal system to heartbreaking domestic drama to a murder investigation to near-Gothic horror

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White

Dewey number

791.45/72

Intended audience

Ontario Film Review Board rating: 14A

Language note

SDH

LC call number

PN1992.77

LC item number

.B54 2009

PerformerNote

Gillian Anderson, Alun Armstrong, Charlie Brooks, Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Charles Dance, Phil Davis, Burn Gorman, Richard Harrington, Matthew Kelly, Patrick Kennedy, Denis Lawson, John Lynch, Anna Maxwell Martin, Alistair McGowan, Carey Mulligan, Nathaniel Parker, Natalie Press, Anne Reid, Ian Richardson, Hugo Speer, Liza Tarbuck, Johnny Vegas, Timothy West

Runtime

465

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action