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Great Expectations

  • 1999
  • TMDB 6.5/10
  • 2h 48m

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Overview

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Cast

  • Ioan GruffuddPip
  • Justine WaddellEstella
  • Charlotte RamplingMiss Havisham
  • Laura AikmanYoung Biddy
  • Nicholas BlaneWopsle
  • Selina CadellSarah Pocket
  • Jo Cameron BrownMiss Skiffins
  • Tony CurranOrlick

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