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Dec 10, 2020 · Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep Photo: Searchlight Pictures) David is shocked and made uneasy by Heep’s ambition to marry his employer’s daughter Agnes Wickfield (Rosalind Eleazar). Mr. Wickfield (Benedict Wong), is Betsey Trotwood's solicitor, and when he loses control of his company to Heep, her fortune disappears. She, Mr. Dick, David, and the ...
- Janet Mullany
Aug 9, 2020 · Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep, his wit playing along the knife edge between self-abasement and contempt, is stranger and more dangerous than even Dickens could manage; in his final, explosive...
Sep 6, 2019 · Later, Ben Whishaw makes the obsequious Uriah Heep the slimiest of villains. The effect is to reinterpret Dicken’s characters in a way that makes sense today, putting a contemporary lens on...
Aug 26, 2020 · When he’s cornered into tea with the oily would-be attorney Uriah Heep (Ben Whishaw) and his mother (Lynn Hunter), he’s served enormous, dense baked goods — “I like a heavy cake,” Uriah...
- Alison Willmore
- Movie Critic
Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep; Benedict Wong as Mr. Wickfield; Gwendoline Christie as Jane Murdstone; Aneurin Barnard as James Steerforth; Morfydd Clark as Dora Spenlow / Clara Copperfield; Daisy May Cooper as Peggotty; Rosalind Eleazar as Agnes Wickfield; Paul Whitehouse as Mr. Peggotty; Nikki Amuka-Bird as Mrs. Steerforth; Darren Boyd as Edward ...
Aug 28, 2020 · Yes it was funny in parts (Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep was the best thing in the whole film) but it skipped around so much, I didn't care for any of the characters or what happened to them.
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG
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Aug 27, 2020 · Similarly, Ben Whishaw’s quietly slinking Uriah Heep, squinting from beneath pudding-bowl bangs, is a creepy joy. “Are you worried humbleness is an infectious disease?,” he asks, when...
