Tag: Charles Dickens

Great Expectations (1946) Script

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Year:1946
Director:David Lean
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), Ronald Neame (Screenplay), David Lean (Screenplay), Anthony Havelock-Allan (Screenplay), Kay Walsh (Screenplay), Cecil McGivern (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Great Expectations (2012) Script

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Year:2012
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), David Nicholls (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's 'Uncle Pumblechook' to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love, then Pip—a humble orphan—suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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The Personal History of David Copperfield Script

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Year:2019
Director:Armando Iannucci
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), Armando Iannucci (Screenplay), Simon Blackwell (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
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  • The Personal History of David Copperfield Script PDF at searchlightpictures.com
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield Script PDF - [Iannucci & Blackwell] [Undated] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield Transcript at subslikescript.com

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  • The Personal History of David Copperfield ( tt6439020 ) at IMDb
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield ( 520900 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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David Copperfield Script

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Year:1935
Director:George Cukor
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), Hugh Walpole (Adaptation), Howard Estabrook (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Charles Dickens' classic tale of an orphaned boy's fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him.
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Oliver & Company Script

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Year:1988
Director:George Scribner
Written by:Jim Cox (Screenplay), Tim Disney (Screenplay), James Mangold (Screenplay), Charles Dickens (Novel)

Script Synopsis:This animated take on Oliver Twist re-imagines Oliver as an adorable orphaned kitten who struggles to survive in New York City and falls in with a band of canine criminals led by an evil human. First, Oliver meets Dodger, a carefree mutt with street savoir faire. But when Oliver meets wealthy Jenny on one of the gang's thieving missions, his life changes forever.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol Script

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Year:1992
Director:Brian Henson
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), Jerry Juhl (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
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Nicholas Nickleby Script

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Year:2002
Director:Douglas McGrath
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), Douglas McGrath (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
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Oliver! Script

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Year:1968
Director:Carol Reed
Written by:Charles Dickens (Screenplay), Lionel Bart (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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Great Expectations Script

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Year:1998
Director:Alfonso Cuarón
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), Mitch Glazer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.
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A Christmas Carol

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Year:1951
Director:Brian Desmond Hurst
Written by:Charles Dickens (Author), Noel Langley (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel miserly businessman until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three spirits, sent show him how his unhappy childhood and maladaptive adult behavior over has let him a selfish, lonely, bitter old man. Released in the USA as "A Christmas Carol".
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