DVD Year 2013 Theatrical Release 2013-12-25 Studio Sony Pictures Classics Genre Drama MPAA Rating R CARA some sexual content Color Color Runtime 111 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Nelly Felicity Jones , a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens Ralph Fiennes with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. Dickens famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens a brilliant amateur actor a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens' passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of invisibility. Director Ralph Fiennes Cast Ralph Fiennes; Felicity Jones; Ralph Fiennes; Kristin Scott Thomas; Michelle Fairley; Tom Burke; Tom Hollander; Perdita Weeks; John Kavanagh; Michael Marcus; Joanna Scanlan