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Great Expectations

1999 · 2h 48m · Drama, Romance · United Kingdom, United States of America · Rated 12 (NL)

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.

Directed by
Julian Jarrold
Written by
Tony Marchant
Based on the novel by
Charles Dickens
Starring
Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Laura Aikman
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19th centurybased on novel or bookvictorian era
Rating12 (NL)

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