Great Expectations

Great Expectations

The World's Greatest Story! The Most Talked About Book! Lives for the First Time on the Screen!

NR 1934 · 100 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

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 Stuart Walker · Written by Gladys Unger

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