Great Expectations (2012)

2012 · 128 min · Drama, Romance

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 Mike Newell. Starring Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Holliday Grainger and Robbie Coltrane.

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