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      Great Expectations

      1999 3 hr. 5 min. Drama List
      Reviews 73% 250+ Ratings Audience Score An anonymous benefactor helps an orphan become a gentleman (Ioan Gruffudd) and pursue an eccentric's (Charlotte Rampling) lovely young ward (Justine Waddell). Read More Read Less

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      steve d A solid but unremarkable take on the often-told tale. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member When I was a little kid, I remember running around the aisles while the 1946 movie was on the screen. Not being a little kid now and not even having read the novel, I first felt this one, maybe this production, was different from Bleak House or Oliver Twist which I knew better. Cast does well but writers do better. Story much clearer with 3 hour context. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member the performance of Charlotte Rampling as Miss Havisham is outstanding; it's what I pictured while "reading" the book in my English Literature class (although we barely did such a thing). I think it should've been darker, but other than that it was excellent Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Great adaptation of the classic, its what i expected and more. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Considering how very devoted the writers seemed to be to the beginning of the story, they really rushed the second half without any real explanations on what was happening. I'll have to read the book to understand, I think. I'm a fan of Justine Waddell, and she did well enough here. Gruffudd had his moments. Rampling played her creepy role decently. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Well of course I had to see a classic but it's still so disappointing. My theory is that classical writers in the time of Dickens watched and experienced so much pain and misery that it's all they could write about. God forbid any of these stories have happy endings because there were hardly ever any happy endings in the real lives of that era. That said I really wanted these two to find happiness and I loved seeing Ioan and Justine together. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      John Leonard New York Magazine/Vulture For Rampling alone, in the great house purchased with the ill-gotten gains of a bygone brewery, this production is must watching: "Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind?" And she certainly isn't. Feb 5, 2018 Full Review Walter Goodman New York Times This production, though always intelligent, is smaller than life and much smaller than Dickens. Dec 1, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An anonymous benefactor helps an orphan become a gentleman (Ioan Gruffudd) and pursue an eccentric's (Charlotte Rampling) lovely young ward (Justine Waddell).
      Director
      Julian Jarrold
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English