Sorry, but this one is plain trash. Full of just very disturbing over acting. Make you think it is some kind of Monty Python farce. But, as a bizarre comedy it is quite good. But what a waste of good actors like Charles Dance, D'Arcy and so on. Well, we all know that Dickens used very black and very white colors quite often - but this is just too much. The 2002 version with Christopher Plummer as Ralph Nickleby is light years ahead this simple joke. As in the Oliver Twist version with the actress Duncan - so incredibly over acting and so incredibly evil it seems as though the script writers think they are far better than Dickens himself.
