Great Expectations is a 1998 American romantic drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and written by Mitch Glazer. It stars Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft and Ro
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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by the English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
Great Expectations (1998 film)
…by Mitch Glazer. It stars Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft and Robert De Niro. The film adapts Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations, moving the setting from Victorian London to contemporary New York. The film garnered mixed reviews but managed to earn $55 million at the global box…
Title page of Vol. I of the first edition, July 1861
Miss Havisham with Estella and Pip. Art by H. M. Brock
Pip is ashamed of Joe at Satis House, by Francis Arthur Fraser
Magwitch makes himself known to Pip