This is the most diverse 'David Copperfield' ever. There have been screen and TV mini-series versions of Dickens' 1850 novel. But none have been diverse like this, starting with the lead casting ...

The movies haven’t always been good to Charles Dickens. ... center, as Micawber, and Dev Patel as David Copperfield. The movie opens in U.S. theaters on Aug. 28, ...

Exuberant fun and packed with excellent, plainly delighted actors, “The Personal History of David Copperfield” gallops through Charles Dickens’ tale with just enough fidelity to the source ...

Dev Patel in The Personal History of David Copperfield. Pic credit: Dean Rogers/20th Century Studios. More movie theaters open this weekend, and some more new movies are hitting for fans ready to ...

Judging by “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, you’d pretty much be right to think that ...

M erging the talents of Armando Iannucci, the master of ornate R-rated invective, and Charles Dickens, a writer with a capacious soul and a graceful wit, promises to be interesting, or at least weird.

Charles Dickens’ “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” published in 1850, has a lively new film adaptation currently playing in theaters. Armando Iannucci is best known for his razor ...

For a filmmaker best known for lacerating satire, director Armando Iannucci manages something delightful in his newest movie, “The Personal History of David Copperfield”: He blows the cobwebs ...

But in the end, Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield – the full title of Charles Dickens’ novel – is actually a remarkably faithful adaptation.

“David Copperfield” was famously the closest novel to Charles Dickens’ heart and his own life experience, and it has been a favorite of filmmakers dating back to practically the birth of ...