The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie • 2019 • Drama
ReportA fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
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Scam artists follow David from town to town.
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David’s stepfather controls his mother and canes him, kicking him out of his home.
Elias Heap tells David’s aunt she had deserved to be hit by her husband.
Elias Heap tells David’s aunt she had deserved to be hit by her husband.
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A child is beaten with a cane as punishment
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A character is an alcoholic, but framed comically
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A character is an obvious drunk, but it is framed comically
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No, but fish are gutted clearly on screen
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A character is seen multiple times kicking donkeys, but in a comic light
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Is there a dead animal?
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Fish, and In one scene David and Mr Micawber hide behind butchered animal carcasses at a market.
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There is a fantasy sequence where someone gets her hand squashed in a factory machine.
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No, but when David is a child he is taken away from his mother and made to work in a factory
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A kid doesn’t die but a parent is shown screaming over her (adult) child’s dead body
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Parent dies, but this is only alluded to. Nothing seen on screen.
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A woman is engaged and runs away with another man.
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No one v* but at around 1 hour and 25 minutes into the movie the old woman in the boat house says she feels she is going to be sick and calls for a bucket.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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23:17 “I’ll end it, where’s my razor” then he makes a mock slashing gesture at his throat and Mrs Micawbre says she’ll join him
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One of the characters drowns and its mentioned that they might have done it to themselves
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0:04:45 a view from a rocking cradle
1:53:15-1:56:00There’s a lot of zooming in and out.
1:53:15-1:56:00There’s a lot of zooming in and out.
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There's a baby that crys in multiple scenes, but it is not in harm in any way
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Around 1:49:00 there’s a lightning storm which is over by 1:51:00
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Yes, but not in a shocking way as this is the point of the story, as the main character is the author
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beginning scene
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David can't read in front of an audience-- he gets nervous and the words swim on the page. He's punished for this by his stepfather.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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1:11:45 There’s a scene where David is seeing Dora everywhere, and a male cab driver goes driving by with Dora’s wig and bows on
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At school David is renamed Daisy.
When porters challenge students to a fight they call the group “ladies”
When porters challenge students to a fight they call the group “ladies”
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The dog’s name is “Jip,” which is short for an ethnic slur
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Yes, people sleeping on the street throughout the movie
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Its set in the Victorian Era
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We see a man washed overboard in a storm but his death is offscreen.
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Small amounts of blood, fish are gutted
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