Storyline

Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby's father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking advantage of his sister Kate, and later his sweetheart, Madeline Bray, whose father is in debtors prison.—Will Gilbert

Plot Keywords

19th century, london england, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, employment agency, loss of wife, loss of husband, loss of father, loss of brother, child abuse, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, yorkshire, england, united kingdom, teenage boy, reference to shakespeare's romeo and juliet, secretary, running away, reference to william shakespeare

Short Review

Cavalcanti's adaptation is elegant, atmospheric and successfully captures the author's skewering of corrupt, inhuman social types and the society that breeds them.

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