Fingersmith 
Category: Drama
Run time: 181 minutes
Director: Aisling Walsh
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Elaine Cassidy, Rupert Evans, Charles Dance, David Troughton, Imelda Staunton
Set in London in 1862, Fingersmith is a real Dickensian intrigue with elements of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. After her mother had been hanged for murder, Susan Trinder (Sally Hawkins) is brought up by Mrs Sucksby (Imelda Staunton), who looks after orphans and unwanted babies, managing to find work for them in her little gang of thieves and pickpockets – known as fingersmiths. One of the gang, Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans) known as ‘Gentleman’, has concocted a scheme to marry an heiress to a great fortune. He arranges to have Sue employed as a maid to Maud Lilly (Elaine Cassidy), to help Gentleman elope with her and, when the time comes, leave her in a madhouse and make off with her inheritance. For this Sue is promised £3,000 – a large amount of money for a humble fingersmith. Engaged through various nefarious means as Maud’s maid, Sue nevertheless comes to feel a certain sympathy for her poor mistress – a frail, sensitive girl, rescued from the madhouse by her uncle (Charles Dance), who has seen little of the world beyond the manor she lives in. Maud's life is a captive one, assisting her uncle to catalogue and index his vast collection of books, her delicate hands kept in a pair of kid gloves to protect the books from getting marked or damaged. As Maud suffers from nightmares, Sue sometimes sleeps in the same bed as her to keep her company. Fearing her impending marriage to Mr Rivers and ignorant of how a wife must please her husband, she gains a few lessons in love-making from Sue and a relationship develops between maid and mistress.
Category: Drama
Run time: 181 minutes
Director: Aisling Walsh
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Elaine Cassidy, Rupert Evans, Charles Dance, David Troughton, Imelda Staunton
Set in London in 1862, Fingersmith is a real Dickensian intrigue with elements of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. After her mother had been hanged for murder, Susan Trinder (Sally Hawkins) is brought up by Mrs Sucksby (Imelda Staunton), who looks after orphans and unwanted babies, managing to find work for them in her little gang of thieves and pickpockets – known as fingersmiths. One of the gang, Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans) known as ‘Gentleman’, has concocted a scheme to marry an heiress to a great fortune. He arranges to have Sue employed as a maid to Maud Lilly (Elaine Cassidy), to help Gentleman elope with her and, when the time comes, leave her in a madhouse and make off with her inheritance. For this Sue is promised £3,000 – a large amount of money for a humble fingersmith. Engaged through various nefarious means as Maud’s maid, Sue nevertheless comes to feel a certain sympathy for her poor mistress – a frail, sensitive girl, rescued from the madhouse by her uncle (Charles Dance), who has seen little of the world beyond the manor she lives in. Maud's life is a captive one, assisting her uncle to catalogue and index his vast collection of books, her delicate hands kept in a pair of kid gloves to protect the books from getting marked or damaged. As Maud suffers from nightmares, Sue sometimes sleeps in the same bed as her to keep her company. Fearing her impending marriage to Mr Rivers and ignorant of how a wife must please her husband, she gains a few lessons in love-making from Sue and a relationship develops between maid and mistress.
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