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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders: Created by Dominic Minghella. With James Bowers, Alex Kingston, Daniel Craig, Trevyn McDowell. Story of a woman who merely wished to be a loving wife, but always had to live the life of crime.
- (1,4K)
- Brujeria
- Unrated
- James Bowers, Alex Kingston, Daniel Craig
Baby Moll is sold several times ending up with gypsies. Adopted by a family whose eldest son seduces her, then she marries his brother. When he dies, she heads to London, remarries, and helps an irresponsible heir squander his fortune.
- (13)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- David Attwood
- 1996-12-01
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders is a 1996 British drama television film directed by David Attwood, with a screenplay by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston. It is an adaptation of the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.
Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. She goes through five husbands and countless lovers to escape a life on the streets. In between using and deceiving her besotted paramours, she is not above picking a pocket or two!
- David Attwood
- 12
- 1
Moll travels to Chatham and becomes Mrs Flanders, a rich widow. She marries a Virginian sea captain, sails to the colonies and meets her new mother-in-law. They have two children, but then Moll discovers that his mother is her mother too.
Moll is head-over-heels for her fifth husband, Jemmy (Daniel Craig, "James Bond"), but she is soon to learn the handsome aristocrat harbors a dark secret. Fully embracing a life of crime, Moll and her new partner Lucy Driver are eventually tracked down and locked up in Newgate Prison.
A costume drama which follows the fortunes of Moll Flanders in 18th Century England. Her determination to reach a secure place in society results in incest, bigamy, adultery, wealth and poverty. Based on the novel by Daniel Defoe.
