Great Expectations (1999)
- Directed by
- Julian Jarrold
- Genre
- drama, romance
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 2h 48m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 21 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A poor orphan boy named Pip is given a mysterious fortune and moves to London to become a gentleman. He pursues the cold rich girl Estella and learns hard truths about kindness and class.
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What happens
Great Expectations is a 1999 television film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name. It was aired on BBC Two in the UK originally in two parts between 12 and 13 April 1999, and on Masterpiece Theatre in the US. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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