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"An indictment against the Victorian industrial society, featuring the rebellion of Louisa against the grimly practical and hard ways of her husband and her father."@en
"Gradgrind's grim principles blight the lives of his children, Louisa and Tom. Based on a Charles Dickens novel."@en
"Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall."@en
"Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall."
"Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall."
"This theatrical BBC adaptation brings Charles Dickens' darkest novel to magnificent life."
"An indictment against the Victorian industrial society, featuring the rebellion of Louisa against the errors of her husband and father."@en
"Set in Victorian England, dramatization of the Charles Dickens novel of broken dreams and family failures."
"Set in Victorian England, dramatization of the Charles Dickens novel of broken dreams and family failures."@en
""An indictment against the Victorian industrial society, featuring the rebellion of Louisa against the errors of her husband and father.""@en
"Coketown, a dark, soot-filled, gloomy Northern mill town, fills the pockets of its businessmen with wealth, and wears down the very souls of its workers."@en
"Charles Dicken's classic tale set in the heart of northern industrial England highlighting the hierarchies and relationships of fictional Copetown."