Plot Synopsis: In Coketown, a depressed factory town, stoic teacher Thomas Gradgrind (Patrick Allen) stresses the importance of hard work and education to his studen... (read more) In Coketown, a depressed factory town, stoic teacher Thomas Gradgrind (Patrick Allen) stresses the importance of hard work and education to his students and his own children. Feelings and fancy have no place in his utilitarian view of the world, an outlook that eventually drives his children to make tragic choices. Timothy West, Jacqueline Tong and Richard Wren co-star in this faithful adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.

Rated Unrated Directed by: John Irvin	Release Date: Dec 31, 1977 On DVD: Mar 13, 2007
All Flixster Ratings: (1) 6% Want To See It 94% Not Interested