GREAT EXPECTATIONS (MASTERPIECE THEATRE, 1999)

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Classic, Drama
• Plot: Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip and his tireless struggle to escape his apparent destiny as a blacksmith's apprentice.; ; Miss Havisham, a vengeful woman frozen in time, irrevocably changes Pip's simple life when she invites him into her home to entertain her young ward, Estella. A beautiful girl raised in Miss Havisham's image, Estella's contemptuous air creates intense feelings of inferiority in Pip, and fuels his desire to better himself.; ; Pip believes he is condemned to the life of a tradesman. Until, that is, an anonymous benefactor sends word that Pip is to be released from his apprenticeship and educated in London as a gentleman. Educated and groomed as her equal and full of 'great expectations,' Pip resolves to prove to Estella that he's changed and win her elusive heart.; ;
• Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Laura Aikman, Nicholas Blane, Selina Cadell, Jo Cameron Brown, Emma Cunniffe, Tony Curran, Laurence Dobiesz, Leo Dolan, Sarah Durham, Michael Eaves, Daniel Evans, Gemma Gregory, Bernard Hill, James Hillier, David Horovitch, Alex Leppard, Hugh Lloyd, Roland Manookian, Ian McDiarmid, Ifan Meredith, Laila Morse, Lockhart Ogilvie, Terence Rigby, Clive Russell, Lesley Sharp, Angela Sims, Philippa Stanton, Reggie Stewart, Richard Stirling, Donald Sumpter, Bill Thomas, Gabriel Thomson, Timothy Tranter, Norman Tyrrell, Sandra Voe, Nicholas Woodeson, Julian Jarrold, Charles Dickens, Tony Marchant
• Director: Julian Jarrold
• Runtime: 3:00
• Company: WGBH Boston Video
• Media Format: Series