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The Way We Live Now is peopled with a range of characters that only Trollope could create - the towering figure of Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet), the Great Financier, a young aristocrat so dissolute he would sell his own mother to pay his gambling debts and whose simultaneous pursuit of two very different women causes all .. Read more
| Starring | David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Paloma Baeza, Cheryl Campbell |
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| Director | David Yates |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Way We Live Now is peopled with a range of characters that only Trollope could create - the towering figure of Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet), the Great Financier, a young aristocrat so dissolute he would sell his own mother to pay his gambling debts and whose simultaneous pursuit of two very different women causes all who know him to despair.
| Starring | David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Paloma Baeza, Cheryl Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Douglas Hodge, Cillian Murphy, Miranda Otto |
|---|---|
| Director | David Yates |
| Studio | CINEMA CLUB |
| Run time | DVD: 4 hrs 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2001 To Rent: DVD: 02 Oct 2006 |
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Poor adaptation
As a avid reader of classics and keen viewer of tv/movie adaptations this was fiercely disappointing! I didn't even finish watching ... read more »
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Really good, one of the best "period" dramas I've seen.
I have not read the novel on which this is based so perhaps I enjoyed it more than I should but I found this to be very enjoyable indeed with a good story line ... read more »
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Uninteresting
Period drama. Not my sort of thing at all. People trying to marry or trying to avoid marrying, with financial machinations thrown in. Mildly amusing in parts, ... read more »
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Pity about Paul
David Suchet as Melmotte was glorious, and I adored Matthew Macfadyen as the rakish Sir Felix Carbury, and the other cast members were wonderful - except for ... read more »