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Synopsis
In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Lousia to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is 30 years her senior. When his son steals from Bounderby's bank and Louisa flees the horrors of her marriage, Gradgrind must acknowledge the error of his lifelong devotion to facts and utility. 2 cassettes.