An epic, intelligent, marvellously cast (including Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness and Cyril Cusck) and beautifully detailed film version of Dickens' mammoth masterpiece about a young girl who has grown up in a debtors' prison with her father, with secrecy surrounding her family history. Wedding the extended length of a television serial to the scale of the cinema screen, director Christine Edzard — backed by her dynamic cottage industry production and costume company Sands Film, which she operated with her husband Richard B. Goodwin (who served as producer on this film) — made one of the most significant Dickens adaptations of the late twentieth century. Brilliantly splitting the story into two parts — one told from the perspective of Arthur Clennam (Jacobi), the other from Amy Dorrit (Sarah Pickering), with each half offering different angles on the same incidents — Little Dorrit "is so filled with characters, so rich in incident, that it has the expansive, luxurious feel of a Victorian novel" (Roger Ebert).