Our Mutual Friend, 1998 film

Our Mutual Friend is a British television serial broadcast in 1998 and adapted from Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865). It was dramatized by Sandy Welch and directed by Julian Farino. The film starred Paul McGann as Eugene Wrayburn, Keeley Hawes as Lizzie Hexam, and David Schofield as Gaffer Hexam.

The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon - a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met- is found dead in the River Thames. The fortune passes into the hands of the working-class Boffins, who take into their new home both Bella Wilfer (Harmon's would-be bride), and a mysterious secretary known as Rokesmith. Meanwhile, Lizzie Hexam, the daughter of the boatman suspected of Harmon's murder, is pursued by two suitors: obsessive and self-righteous Bradley Headstone and roguish and lethargic Eugene Wrayburn. An expansive and varied cast of characters create an epic intertwining tale.


Part One

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Part Three

Part Four