Great Expectations
Great Expectations
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Great Expectations

DirectorDavid Lean

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

7.3 / 10
1946
118 min
DramaRomance

In this Dickens adaptation, 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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