Great Expectations
- Release Date
- November 30, 2012
- Director
- Mike Newell
- Cast
- Ralph Fiennes , Helena Bonham Carter , Jason Flemyng , Robbie Coltrane , Holliday Grainger , Ewen Bremner
- Runtime
- 128
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Charles Dickens , David Nicholls
- Tagline
- Prepare for a life of great expectations.
Summary
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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