The Way We Live Now 2001
- Drama
- 75 min episodes
- 1 season
- 4 episodes
- Ended
Anthony Trollope’s epic tale of Victorian power and corruption, set in the 1870s. Within weeks of his arrival in London, financier Augustus Melmotte announces a railway is to be built from Salt Lake City to the Gulf of Mexico and entices distinguished members of England's land-rich, cash-poor aristocracy into his web. Many are eager to sell their ailing land parcels to afford moving to London proper and naïve speculators are all lured in with promises of an instant fortune.
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Character
Classical in form, earnest, grave and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- David SuchetAugustus Melmotte
- Matthew MacfadyenSir Felix Carbury
- Cillian MurphyPaul Montague
- Paloma BaezaHetta Carbury
- Cheryl CampbellLady Carbury
- Richard CantDolly Longestaffe
- Shirley HendersonMarie Melmotte
- Tony BrittonLord Alfred Grendall
- Douglas HodgeRoger Carbury
- David BradleyMr Broune
Crew
- Anthony TrollopeNovel
- Chris SeagerDirector of Photography
- Nicholas HooperOriginal Music Composer
- Mark DayEditor
- Nigel Stafford-ClarkProducer
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Seasons
- Miniseries4 eps · 2001
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