this be the best film adaptation of dickens best novel . you can not go wrong with this one . the production be low budget and but that actually work in it favor . the film have a grittiness that be entirely appropriate . the script be first rate and the actor be virtuosos across the board . there be not a note in it anywhere that ring false . if youre tire of the sentimentalism and cartoonish character usually associate with dickens and you will be pleasantly surprise . there be none of that here . this be a story about real people . there be no saint and except for rachel and she a minor character and and no devil . even the ostensible villain and bounderby and be humanize . dickens on film doesn not get good than this .