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Little Dorrit (1987) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1987 · 357 mins · English
- Directed by
- Christine Edzard
- Starring
- David Thewlis, Robert Morley, Eleanor Bron, Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Ruth Sheen
A period drama adapted from Charles Dickens’s novel, it follows Arthur Clennam as he becomes entangled in the bleak world of a debtor’s prison and encounters Amy Dorrit, a young seamstress whose father has endured twenty‑five years of incarceration. The film was originally released in two parts.
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