Hard Times (1994)
- Starring:
- Richard E. Grant, Alan Bates, (more)
- Director(s):
- Peter Barnes
- Category:
- Drama, Television, Foreign
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The difficult realities of life in Britain during the early Industrial Age are explored in this made-for-television adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. Thomas Gradgrind (Bob Peck) is a schoolteacher working in Coketown, a grim industrial town in the North of England, who believes that facts are of supreme importance and imagination is folly. Gradgrind imposes his philosophies on his children, arranging for his daughter, Louisa (Beatie Edney), to marry Josiah Bounderby (Alan Bates), a businessman old enough to be her father, who also employs her brother, Tom (Christien Anholt). As Louisa tries to find a way out of her relationship with Bounderby, she finds herself pursued by the even more repellant James Harthouse (Richard E. Grant). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 104 mins
Complete Cast:
- Richard E. Grant - James Harthouse
- Christien Anholt - Tom
- Peter Bayliss - Sleary
- Fergus Brazier - Young Kidderminster
- Beatie Edney - Louisa
- Dilys Laye - Mrs. Sparsit
- Bob Peck - Thomas Gradgrind
- Christopher Ettridge - Miner
- Alan Bates - Josiah Bounderby
- Timothy Bateson - Childers
- Christopher Benjamin - Slackbridge
- Patsy Byrne - Old Woman
- Alex Jennings - Bitzer
- Bill Paterson - Blackpool
- Harriet Walter - Rachel
- Emma Lewis - Sissy
- Director(s):
- Peter Barnes
- Writer(s):
- Peter Barnes
- Producer(s):
- Rebecca Eaton, Richard Langridge
- Categories:
- Television, Drama, Foreign
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