Period drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens, starring Jamie Bell and Charlie Hunnam. When their father dies, the destitute Nickleby family is split up by the evil Uncle Ralph. Nicholas is sent to work at a boys' school in the north of England that's run by the sadistic Mr Squeers. He befriends the disabled and mistreated Smike, and they decide to run away so Nicholas can reunite his family. Review page 73. Director Douglas McGrath (2002, PG)