Our Mutual Friend, Part 3 - Charles Dickens (BBC, 1998)

Critically acclaimed as Dickens’ crowning achievement, this sweeping tale of two turbulent love affairs plays out amidst a tangled web of wealth, corruption, passion and betrayal in 1860s London. “One of Charles Dickens’ darkest yet also most romantic novels gets a lavish treatment in this BBC mini-series of Our Mutual Friend. The heir to a great fortune made from the garbage business is drowned--and his death affects everyone. His father’s manager, Noddy Boffin (Peter Vaughan), gets the money, to the alar