Release Year:
2005MMPA Rating:
NRNetflix Star Rating:
4.0 / 5 StarsAvailable Since:
January 31, 2012Bleak House
The wealthy and kind John Jarndyce (Denis Lawson) takes orphaned Esther Summerson (Anna Maxwell Martin) into his household, where she befriends two of his wards, Richard (Patrick Kennedy) and Ada (Carey Mulligan). Meanwhile, Lady Dedlock (Gillian Anderson) guards a secret about Esther's origins -- and her fate. Charles Dickens's suspenseful yarn of legal justice comes to life in this BBC miniseries penned by period-piece writer Andrew Davies.
Cast Summary:
Charles Dance, Tom Georgeson, Nathaniel Parker, Gillian Anderson, Timothy West, Alun Armstrong, Denis Lawson, John Lynch, Tony Haygarth, Hugo Speer, Andrew Davies, Warren Clarke, Johnny Vegas, Richard Harrington, Patrick Kennedy, Burn Gorman, Anna Maxwell Martin, Carey Mulligan