A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Trevor Eve, Pauline Quirke, Laura Harling, Zoë Wanamaker, Michael Elphick, Maggie Smith, James Thornton, Jacqueline Tong, Alun Armstrong, Karl Johnson, Ian McKellen, Patsy Byrne, Harry Lloyd, Ciarán McMenamin, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Steve Swinscoe, Dawn French
Romance is in the air as David secretly gets engaged to his employer's daughter, the beautiful but dizzy Dora Spenlow, despite Mr. Spenlow's outrage. Spenlow's death soon after, however, gives David a chance to marry Dora, and he starts to write his stories and columns for newspapers.
David's happy childhood days in the village of Blunderstone with his mother, Clara, and at Great Yarmouth with their servant, Peggotty and her family, are brought to an end by the marriage of Clara to high-minded but brutal Edward Murdstone.