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Great Expectations is a 1999 television film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name. It was aired on BBC Two in the UK, and on Masterpiece Theatre in the US.
May 9, 1999 · Great Expectations: Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Laura Aikman. A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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- Drama
- Julian Jarrold
- 1999-05-09
Jan 30, 1998 · Great Expectations: Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper. Modernization of Charles Dickens' classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York City pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.
- (57K)
- Drama, Romance
- Alfonso Cuarón
- 1998-01-30
Jan 30, 1998 · Great Expectations. Roger Ebert January 30, 1998. Tweet. Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. This is not, says Finn, the way the story really happened, but the way he remembers it.
Great Expectations is a 1998 American romantic drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, from a screenplay by Mitch Glazer and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, and Robert De Niro.
Violence and Victorian gentility meet in one of Dickens' greatest creations. Pip's epic journey from boy to man has at its center his relationships with the terrifying convict Magwitch, manipulative Miss Havisham and the beautiful but heartless Estella.
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May 9, 1999 · Overview. A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella.