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Great Expectations (1999)
Directed by Julian Jarrold
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.
Length 168 minutes
Actors
Ioan Gruffudd | Justine Waddell | Charlotte Rampling | Laura Aikman | Nicholas Blane | Selina Cadell | Jo Cameron Brown | Tony Curran | Ian McDiarmid | Clive Russell | Lesley Sharp | Donald Sumpter | Nicholas Woodeson | James Hillier | Ifan Meredith | Emma Cunniffe | Laurence Dobiesz | Sarah Durham | Daniel Evans | Gemma Gregory | Bernard Hill | David Horovitch | Alex Leppard | Hugh Lloyd | Roland Manookian | Laila Morse | Lockhart Ogilvie | Terence Rigby | Angela Sims | Michael Eaves | Gabriel Thomson | Ryan John Monaghan