Little Dorrit(2008)
Overview
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
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Amy Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
Mr. Dorrit
Fanny Dorrit
Ephraim Flintwinch
Mrs. Clennam
Miss Wade
Rigaud
Pancks
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