

Great Expectations
1999-04-12 · 168 min · ★ 6.5
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.
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- Directors
- Julian Jarrold
- Production companies
- BBC, GBH
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Ioan GruffuddPip
Justine WaddellEstella
Charlotte RamplingMiss Havisham
Laura AikmanYoung Biddy
Nicholas BlaneWopsle
Selina CadellSarah Pocket
Tony CurranOrlick
Ian McDiarmidJaggers
Clive RussellJoe Gargery
Lesley SharpMrs. Joe
Donald SumpterCompeyson
Nicholas WoodesonWemmick
James HillierBentley Drummle
Emma CunniffeBiddy
Laurence DobieszYoung Herbert
Sarah DurhamMaid
Daniel EvansHerbert Pocket
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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.

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