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19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, the progressive Dorothea Brooke desperately seeks intellectual fulfillment in a male-dominated society and is driven into an unhappy marriage to the elderly scholar Casaubon. No sooner do they embark on their honeymoon than she meets and develops an instant connection with Casaubon's young cousin, Will Ladislaw. When idealistic Doctor Lydgate arrives, his new methods of medicine sweep him into the battle between conservatives and liberals in town. He quickly becomes enamored of the beautiful, privileged Rosamond Vincy, a woman whose troubles seem bound to destroy him.
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Douglas Hodge
Dr. Tertius Lydgate

Robert Hardy
Arthur Brooke

Patrick Malahide
Rev. Edward Casaubon

Michael Hordern
Peter Featherstone

Jonathan Firth
Fred Vincy

Julian Wadham
Sir James Chettam

Colum Convey
Mr. Hawley

Simon Chandler
Rev. Farebrother

Rosemary Martin
Mrs. Bulstrode

Stephen Moore
Mayor Vincy

Clive Russell
Caleb Garth

Ronald Hines
Mr. Standish
Rachel Power
Rachel Power
Mary Garth
Mary Hanefey
Mary Hanefey
Lady Chettam

Elizabeth Spriggs
Mrs. Cadwallader