Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Release: 1999-04-12
·Runtime: 168m
·★ 6.3
Drama
Romance
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
United States of America
Production Companies
BBC
GBH
Cast
Hugh Lloyd
as The Aged P
Donald Sumpter
as Compeyson
James Hillier
as Bentley Drummle
Emma Cunniffe
as Biddy
Sarah Durham
as Maid
Bernard Hill
as Abel Magwitch
Charlotte Rampling
as Miss Havisham
Jo Cameron Brown
as Miss Skiffins
Laurence Dobiesz
as Young Herbert
David Horovitch
as Matthew Pocket
Gabriel Thomson
as Young Pip
Selina Cadell
as Sarah Pocket
Lesley Sharp
as Mrs. Joe
Daniel Evans
as Herbert Pocket
Gemma Gregory
as Young Estella
Michael Eaves
as Police Officer
Ioan Gruffudd
as Pip
Tony Curran
as Orlick
Ifan Meredith
as Startop
Roland Manookian
as Pip's Servant
Angela Sims
as Estella's Attendant
Alex Leppard
as Gaoler
Laila Morse
as Molly
Lockhart Ogilvie
as Gentleman
Justine Waddell
as Estella
Laura Aikman
as Young Biddy
Clive Russell
as Joe Gargery
Ian McDiarmid
as Jaggers
Nicholas Woodeson
as Wemmick
Terence Rigby
as Pumbleneck
Nicholas Blane
as Wopsle