Great Expectations
6.4/10
Rating
128 min
Runtime
2012
Release Year
Mike Newell
Director
Cast
Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Holliday Grainger, Robbie Coltrane
Quick Synopsis
Pip, an orphan living in early 19th-century England, learns from the lawyer Mr. Jaggers that an unknown benefactor has provided funds to make him a gentleman. As he reconnects with Miss Havisham, the wealthy but reclusive woman who raised him as a child, and Estella, the beautiful girl he loves, he discovers that Miss Havisham has become mentally unstable after being abandoned on her wedding day. She has raised Estella to be emotionally distant and to break hearts, shaping the complicated relationships between them all.
Detailed Synopsis of Great Expectations
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.
