One of Charles Dickens' darkest yet also most romantic novels gets a lavish treatment in this BBC mini-series of
Our Mutual Friend. The heir to a great fortune made from the garbage business is drowned--and his death affects everyone. His father's manager, Noddy Boffin (Peter Vaughan,
Brazil), gets the money, to the alarm of snooty society. The man who pulled the heir's body out of the Thames is accused of his murder; his daughter, Lizzie Hexam (Keeley Hawes,
Tipping the Velvet), finds herself pursued by both an idle gentleman (Paul McGann,
Withnail & I) and an obsessed, violent schoolteacher (David Morrissey,
Basic Instinct 2). The heir's intended bride, Bella Wilfer (Anna Friel,
Me Without You, gets socially adopted by the Boffins, where she...
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