Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
- biography
- older man younger woman relationship
- historical romance
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ralph Fiennes
Charles Dickens
Felicity Jones
Nelly Ternan
Joanna Scanlan
Catherine Dickens
Kristin Scott Thomas
Catherine Ternan
- Tom Hollander — Wilkie Collins
- Michelle Fairley — Caroline Graves
- John Kavanagh — Reverend Benham
- Amanda Hale — Fanny Ternan
- Perdita Weeks — Maria Ternan
- Tom Burke — George Wharton
- Richard McCabe — Mark Lemon
- David Collings — Governor
- James Michael Rankin — Evening Man
- Charlotte Hope — Prostitute
- Michael Marcus — Charley Dickens
- Directed
- Ralph Fiennes
- Written
- Abi Morgan
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 215 ratings
- Studio
- BBC Film, Headline Pictures, Magnolia Mae Films
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