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Little Dorrit (1000) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1000 · 420 mins · English
- Directed by
- Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh
- Starring
- Eddie Marsan, Andy Serkis, Tom Courtenay, Claire Foy, Maxine Peake, Anton Lesser
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for her family and caring for her proud father, a long‑term inmate of the Marshalsea debtors’ prison in London. Her quiet existence is upended when Arthur Clennam, the son of her employer, returns from abroad to unravel his family’s mysterious legacy, only to discover that his fate is closely tied to Amy’s and that the secrets of both households are intertwined.
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