DVD

Hard times [videorecording] / a BBC-TV production in association with WGBH ; produced by Richard Langridge ; directed by Peter Barnes.

Barnes, Peter, 1931-2004 (Added Author). Bates, Alan, 1934-2003 (Added Author). Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Hard times. (Added Author). Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter, Richard E. Grant. (Cast).

Summary:

Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.

Record details

ISBN: 1419814508
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : | videorecording 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: [London] : BBC Video ; 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally broadcast by BBC Schools in 1994. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. DVD special features include: "The signalman".
Restrictions on Access Note:	LICENSED FOR HOME USE ONLY
Participant or Performer Note:	Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter, Richard E. Grant.
Target Audience Note:	PARENTAL GUIDANCE - MATURE THEME. Manitoba Film Classification Board
System Details Note:	DVD, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital.
Language Note:	Closed-captioned.