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Nicholas Nickleby

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Duration:
132 min
Genres:
Drama | Romance
IMDB rate:
7.3
Director:
Douglas McGrath
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 4 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 2003-05-29
Filming Locations: Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Earnings
Budget: $10,000,000
Opening Weekend: $42,864 (USA) (29 December 2002)
Gross: $1,587,173 (USA) (1 May 2003)
Cast
Actor
Character
Charlie Hunnam
Charlie Hunnam
Nicholas Nickleby
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
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
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
Alan Cumming
Mr. Folair
Eileen Walsh
The Infant Phenomenon
Alfred Harmsworth
Young Smike
Mark Wells
Romeo in play
Daisy Haggard
Juliet in play
Jacob Engelberg
Boy Messenger (as Jacob Engleberg)
Philip Davis
Brooker
Sophie Thompson
Miss Lacreevy
Timothy Spall
Charles Cheeryble
Gerard Horan
Ned Cheeryble
Lisa Martin
Ribbon Girl
William Ash
Frank
David Bradley
Nigel Bray
Celia Henebury
Mrs. Bray
Edward Hogg
Young Mr. Bray
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Doctor
Diana Morrison
Bray's Maid
Amber Batty
Mrs. Ralph Nickleby
Mark Dexter
Young Ralph Nickleby
Mark Meadows
Lone Soldier
Greg Bennett
Theatre Goer (uncredited)
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Trivia
First cinema feature of Romola Garai.
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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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Timothy Spall previously appeared in The Royal Shakespeare Company's landmark 9-hour stage adaptation of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1980), playing Mr. Folair and Young Wackford. He had left the company by the time it was filmed for television as The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982) and thus does not appear in that mini series.
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Goofs
Nicholas's letter from Dotheboys to Ralph Nickleby carries a postage stamp. These did not exist in the 1830s.
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When Nicholas leaves Madeleine's apartment for the first time, it appears to be in the basement. When he rushes to save her from marrying Mulberry Hawk, he runs up many flights of steps to get to the apartment.
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The movie is set in the early-to-mid-1800s, but characters sing the hymn "God is working His purpose out" which was written in 1894, 24 years after the death of Charles Dickens.
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Quotes
Nicholas: [to Ralph Nickleby] Your curse has no power over me. The structures you raised all through your misspent life are crumbling into dust. This day, this very day, 10000 pounds of your hoarded wealth are gone in one great crash. Your day is done. Night is coming fast for you.
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John Browdie: Wait. I say Wait. I've come from the schoolhouse. Mr Squeers says he was attacked. Beaten, and nearly sensless. When he said it was thee who did it, I knew thee must nor be allowed to leave...
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Madeline Bray: Nicholas, I feel you know what it's like to be without happiness... but do you know what it's like to be afraid of it? To see the world as so conniving, you cannot take pleasure in the appareance of something good... because you suspect... it is only a painted drop behind which other troubles lie. That has been my life. Every good thing has been a trick. Until you.
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Photos from cast
Charlie Hunnam
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