A clever Dickens adaptation taking the disguised-autobiography approach of Dickens original and capturing most of the high points (allowing Patel to step out and narrate and capture the moments in his story as he goes through them) - with a superlative cast of scene-stealers to play the various Dickensian eccentrics. It perhaps slightly downplays the melancholy and melodrama in favour of the comedy and rompish elements, but there's enough there to streamline a very rambling novel into a fairly tight film.
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