Great Expectations (1998)

Written by Charles Dickens, Mitch Glazer

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón

Running Time: 120 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1998

Rating: 15 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

This modern adaptation of Dickens' classic coming of age story sees the young and naïve Finn (Ethan Hawke), who falls in love with Estella (Gwyneth Paltrow), a girl raised with the strict intention of breaking men's hearts.

Finn is a poor orphan living in a Florida fishing village who is haunted by memories of Estella, a young girl he knew as a child.

When he is grown up and living in New York, having become a successful painter, Estella reappears in his life and Finn falls deeply in love, knowing all the while that it is a feeling that can never be returned.

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Cast

	Ethan Hawke		Finnegan 'Finn' Bell
	Gwyneth Paltrow		Estella
	Hank Azaria		Walter Plane
	Chris Cooper		Uncle Joe
	Anne Bancroft		Ms. Nora Dinsmoor
	Robert de Niro		Arthur Lustig
	Josh Mostel		Jerry Ragno
	Kim Dickens		Maggie Bell
	Nell Campbell		Erica Thrall
	Gabriel Mann		Owen
	Jeremy James Kissner		Finnegan Bell at Age 10
	Raquel Beaudene		Estella at Age 10
	Stephen Spinella		Carter Macleish
	Marla Sucharetza		Ruth Shepard
	Isabelle Anderson		Lois Pope