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Directed by | Armando Iannucci |
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Based on | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens |
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Cinematography | Zac Nicholson |
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Music by | Christopher Willis |
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Running time | 119 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $15.6 million[2] |
Box office | $14.4 million[3][4] |
The Personal History of David Copperfield is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Armando Iannucci, based on the 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It stars Dev Patel as the title character, along with Aneurin Barnard, Peter Capaldi, Morfydd Clark, Daisy May Cooper, Rosalind Eleazar, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw and Paul Whitehouse.[5]
The world premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival on 5 September 2019 and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2020 by Lionsgate and in the United States on 28 August 2020 by Searchlight Pictures.[6][7]