![]() The movie gives full screen time to Wackford Squeers ( Jim Broadbent, looking curiously Churchillian) and his wife ( Juliet Stevenson)-and hints that psychosexual pathology inspired their mistreatment of students. McGrath has done some serious pruning, but the result does not seem too diluted there is room for expansive consideration of such essential characters as Nicholas' vindictive uncle Ralph ( Christopher Plummer), secretly undermined by his dipsomaniac and disloyal servant Newman Noggs ( Tom Courtenay). The movie is jolly and exciting and brimming with life, and wonderfully well-acted. ![]() The new film version by Douglas McGrath, who made " Emma" (1996), is much more reasonable than the 1980 nine-hour stage version of the Royal Shakespeare Company, which I have on laserdisk and really mean to get to one of these days. ![]()
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