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The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

| Comedy, Drama | 10 January 2020 (UK)
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Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

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Armando Iannucci

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Simon Blackwell (screenplay), Charles Dickens (novel) | 1 more credit »

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Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Sophie McShera | See full cast & crew »
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Cast

Credited cast:
Dev Patel ... David Copperfield
Tilda Swinton ... Betsey Trotwood
Sophie McShera ... Mrs Crupp
Gwendoline Christie ... Jane Murdstone
Hugh Laurie ... Mr Dick
Ben Whishaw ... Uriah Heep
Aneurin Barnard ... Steerforth
Anna Maxwell Martin ... Mrs. Strong
Benedict Wong ... Mr Wickfield
Peter Capaldi ... Mr Micawber
Morfydd Clark ... Dora
Rosalind Eleazar ... Agnes
Ruby Bentall ... Janet
Darren Boyd ... Edward Murdstone
Aimée Kelly ... Emily
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Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

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10 January 2020 (UK) See more »

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История Дэвида Копперфилда See more »

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King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, UK See more »

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Film 4, FilmNation Entertainment See more »
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Paul Whitehouse previously appeared in the 1999 adaptation of David Copperfield, playing a pawnbroker who gets swindled by Wilkins Micawber. See more »

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Way too smarmy and about half an hour too long
7 September 2019 | by shanx24 – See all my reviews

Caught this at TIFF. One had a managed set of expectations beforehand given the schmaltz in Dicken's feel-good novel with black and white morality in its characters. There are fun lines, but the loud music at all times is a bit too much. Half way through the movie you start wishing it'll get to its crowd-pleasing end. It takes another hour to get there. Characters are predictable platitudes. Hugh Laurie looks genuinely bored in his underused waste of time. Watch the 1999 show with Maggie Smith instead.
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