A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 nominations total
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- TriviaSally Field was a last-minute replacement for Dame Angela Lansbury.
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David Copperfield: That is what he is, this fellow; a calculating, cold blooded, fortune hunter, without honour, scruple, or mercy.
Mr. Edward Murdstone: [overturns the table they are sitting at] Be silent!
David Copperfield: I have been silent too long! I will be silent no more!
Miss Jane Murdstone: Edward... come away
Mr. Edward Murdstone: Hold your tounge!
David Copperfield: He bullied, and harried my poor, weak mother into her grave!
Mr. Edward Murdstone: Yes, she was weak. But it was not I who preyed upon her weakness, it was her own SON, who drained her of the strenght she needed with his wild behaviour and importunate demands!
David Copperfield: You killed her, as deliberately, and as pitilessly, as if you had thrust a knife into her heart!
Mr. Edward Murdstone: Repeat that in england, sir! Repeat that in a place, where you can not evade the laws of slander!
David Copperfield: I'll do better than that; I'll write it!
- Crazy creditsProduced with the support of investment incentives for the Irish Film Industry provided by the Government of Ireland.
- ConnectionsVersion of Love and the Law (1910)
the BBC version is the most faithful to the book however I feel they miscasted older David...Hugh Dancy is perfect
the hallmark David Copperfield is not as faithfull to the book in my opinion...Sally Field as Aunt Besty is not all too great...Dame Maggie Smith was better...if Hugh Dancy had been in the BBC version it would have been perfect
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- Apr 18, 2003
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