
The story
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.
Cast & crew
Stephen TompkinsonJim Dixon
Robert HardyProfessor Neddy Welch
Keeley HawesChristine Callaghan
Helen McCroryMargaret Peel
Stephen ManganBertrand Welch
Penelope WiltonCelia Welch
David RyallStanley
Anthony CalfCecil Goldsmith
Hermione NorrisCarol Goldsmith
Denis LawsonJulius Gore-Urqhart
Robert WilfortEvan Johns
Hugh ParkerBeesleyExplore the crew
- Director
- Robin Sheppard
- Producer
- Analisa Barreto
- Producer
- Sanne Wohlenberg
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Russell
- Director of Photography
- Julian Court
- Editor
- Chris Dickens
- Writer
- Jack Rosenthal