Great Expectations (2012)
Prepare for a life of great expectations.
Director: Mike Newell · Writer: David Nicholls
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.
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Trailer
Director
Mike Newell
Cast
Jeremy Irvine
Philip 'Pip' Pirrip 
Helena Bonham Carter
Miss Havisham 
Ralph Fiennes
Abel Magwitch 
Holliday Grainger
Estella Havisham 
Robbie Coltrane
Mr. Jaggers 
Sally Hawkins
Mrs. Joe 
Jason Flemyng
Joe Gargery 
Ewen Bremner
Wemmick 
David Walliams
Mr. Pumblechook 
Tamzin Outhwaite
Molly 
Daniel Weyman
Arthur Havisham 
Jessie Cave
Biddy User Reviews (1)
Well the Irvine's decided to keep this in the family! The young "Pip" (Toby) is out one night when he encounters the escaping convict "Magwitch" (Joseph Fiennes). Terrified for his life, he feeds the man and returns home to his kindly uncle "Joe" (Jason Flemyng) and his rather domineering wife (Sally Hawkins). Scoot on a few years and now big brother Jeremy takes over the leading role and is introduced to the solicitor "Jaggers" (Robbie Coltrane) who informs the young man that he is now a man of means. The conditions of his mysterious benefaction are that he live in London as a gentleman and that he make no enquiries as to the source of his newfound wealth. Now he, and we, make certain assumptions about the eccentric "Miss Havisham" (Helena Bonham Carter) but he is in London now, befriending old sparring partner "Herbert Pocket" (Olly Alexander) and leading a life of comfortable leisure.…
