David Copperfield (1999)

Directed by

Simon Curtis

Genre

drama television series, miniseries

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

6

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy grows up through a series of hardships and adventures in Victorian England. He meets a strange collection of characters along the way.

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What happens

David Copperfield is a two-part BBC television drama adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1850 novel of the same name, written by Adrian Hodges. The first part was shown on Christmas Day 1999 and the second part the following day. The production is the acting debut of Daniel Radcliffe, who later rose to stardom as the title character of the Harry Potter film series, where he collaborated with his David Copperfield co-stars Maggie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker, Imelda Staunton, Dawn French and Paul Whitehouse. The series was co-produced by BBC America and Boston television station WGBH, and first aired on American television in April 2000, as a feature in the PBS series Masterpiece. It won a Peabody Award in 2000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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