Movie

Great Expectations (1999)

• April 12, 1999
• 2h 48m

• Drama
• Romance

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.

Director

Julian Jarrold

Writers

Tony Marchant, Charles Dickens

Starring

Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling