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Great Expectations (1999)

Great Expectations (1999)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1999, April 12
Directors: Julian Jarrold
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: BBC, GBH
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Bernard Hill, David Horovitch, Nicholas Woodeson, Angela Sims, Nicholas Blane, Tony Curran, Ioan Gruffudd, Clive Russell, Ian McDiarmid, Jo Cameron Brown, Gabriel Thomson

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book 19th century victorian era