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Director Mike Newell
Screenplay David Nicholls

Great Expectations

Tagline: Prepare for a life of great expectations.

Release Date: 2012-11-30

Duration: 128 minutes

Synopsis

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook 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.

Casting

  • Helena Bonham Carter
    Miss Havisham
  • Ralph Fiennes
    Abel Magwitch
  • Sophie Rundle
    Clara
  • Robbie Coltrane
    Mr. Jaggers
  • Sally Hawkins
    Mrs. Joe
  • Ralph Ineson
    Sergeant
  • Holliday Grainger
    Estella Havisham
  • Jeremy Irvine
    Philip 'Pip' Pirrip
  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    Bentley Drummle
  • Ewen Bremner
    Wemmick

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