It’s the only adaptation that has Dickens himself portrayed. Admittedly I don’t think Gonzo is an accurate depiction, other than the clothes, but it did allow them to put far more of the actual text of the book into the movie than any other adaptation, because they had a narrator.
Ummm… My experience says otherwise. There are a lot of Lances out there. Seemed to be a popular baby name in the early '90s or maybe late '80s. They are always younger than me.