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Little Dorrit (2008)

Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit
Drama

Release Date
October 26, 2008
Cast
Claire Foy , Matthew Macfadyen , Tom Courtenay , Emma Pierson , Alun Armstrong , Judy Parfitt , Maxine Peake , Andy Serkis
Main Genre
Drama
Seasons
1

Summary

Little Dorrit is a fourteen-part period drama from the BBC based on the 1850s serial novel by Charles Dickens. The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

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