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'Nicholas Nickleby' is a good treat

The original Charles Dickens classic of poverty, friendship, endeavour, romance and redemption in the cobbled streets of Victorian London ran to some 700 pages; which means that McGrath had to do a bit of pruning for this excellent screen adaptation.

Fri, 27 Jun, 2003 - 16:21

Nicholas Nickleby

Director: Douglas McGrath

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