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Nicholas Nickleby
Directed by Douglas McGrath
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Nicholas Nickelby (2002) After the death of his financially replete father, Nicholas Nickleby and his family travel to London to seek assistance from his father's older brother Ralph. Taking an immediate dislike to his nephew, Ralph employs Nicholas under the sadistic Mr. Squeers and his interminable wife, owners of a boys' school in northern England. In the meantime, Ralph seeks to use Nicholas' beautiful sister Kate as a ploy to influence his investors. Discourse forces Nicholas to flee the school with the crippled Smike, an orphan with no memories of his former life before he was brought to Dotheboys' Hall. On their journey back to London they meet up with Vincent Crummles and his acting troupe, befriend Ralph's good-hearted secretary Newman Noggs, and ultimately rise over adversity
Director
Douglas McGrath
Writers
Charles Dickens (novel)
Douglas McGrath (screenplay)
Cast
Stella Gonet... Mrs. Nickleby
Andrew Havill... Mr. Nickleby
Henry McGrath... Child Nicholas Nickleby
Hugh Mitchell... Boy Nicholas Nickleby
Poppy Rogers... Child Kate Nickleby
Jessie Lou Roberts... Young Kate Nickleby
Charlie Hunnam... Nicholas Nickleby
Romola Garai... Kate Nickleby
Tom Courtenay... Newman Noggs
Christopher Plummer... Ralph Nickleby
Anne Hathaway... Madeline Bray
Jim Broadbent... Mr. Wackford Squeers
Angela Curran... Parent
Jamie Bell... Smike
Juliet Stevenson... Mrs. Squeers
Bruce Cook... Little Wackford Squeers
Greg Sheffield... Bolder
Alexander Graham... Cobbey (as Alex Graham)
Jordan Calvert... First Boy
Joel Pitts... Second Boy
Billy Hill... Tomkins
Heather Goldenhersh... Fanny Squeers
Lucy Davis... Maid (as Lucy Davies)
Helen Coker... Tilda
Kevin McKidd... John Browdie
Edward Fox... Sir Mulberry Hawk
Nicholas Rowe... Lord Verisopht
Angus Wright... Mr. Pluck
Nathan Lane... Vincent Crummles
Barry Humphries... Mrs. Crummles / Mr. Leadville (also as Dame Edna Everage)
Alan Cumming... Mr. Folair
Eileen Walsh... The Infant Phenomenon
Alfred Harmsworth... Young Smike
Mark Wells... Romeo
Daisy Haggard... Juliet
Jacob Engelberg... Boy Messenger (as Jacob Engleberg)
Philip Davis... Brooker (as Phil Davis)
Sophie Thompson... Miss Lacreevy
Timothy Spall... Charles Cheeryble
Gerard Horan... Ned Cheeryble
Lisa Martin... Ribbon Girl
William Ash... Frank
David Bradley... Bray
Celia Henebury... Mrs. Bray
Edward Hogg... Young Mr. Bray
Roger AshtonGriffiths... Doctor
Diana Morrison... Bray's Maid
Amber Batty... Mrs. Ralph Nickleby
Mark Dexter... Young Ralph Nickleby
Mark Meadows... Lone Soldier
Trivia
- Miranda Richardson was set to play Mrs Squeers, but she declined so she could concentrate on three much more demanding roles in Spider (2002).
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