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Title: Our Mutual Friend - Streaming Version
Review: We taped the original when it premiered in 1998, and watched it until it wore out. We purchased the VHS when that came out, and the DVD when it was released. Loved them all - perhaps our favorite adaptation of all time.Unfortunately, the streaming version comes in at exactly 300 minutes - 39 minutes shorter than the original. Those missing 39 minutes include an entire subplot - the Boffins' attempt at adopting a child, that child's extended family, including Sloppy, and how Sloppy and the dollmaker meet, etc. - ALL missing. Several of the plot points no longer make sense without these scenes - how did Bella and Lizzie meet so that Lizzie would want Bella at her wedding?Who is the masked man that haunts Weg?I still rate it 4 stars - but would be five with all the scenes!
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