MASTERPIECE: GREAT EXPECTATIONS (U.K. EDITION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 2011
• Genre: Classic, Drama
• Plot: Nothing is quite as it seems in this lush retelling of Dickens’ classic coming of age story, with colourful characters - conspirators, rouges, rakes and wretches - including stunning performances by Gillian Anderson, David Suchet, Ray Winstone, Douglas Booth, and Venessa Kirby.; ; Young orphan Pip wants no more from life than to one day join his brother-in-law Jo at the blacksmiths’ forge. Until, that is, fate intervenes – twice. First, an escaped convict (Winstone) ambushes Pip in the marshes; and not long after, a wealthy, reclusive neighbour at the macabre Satis House – Miss Havisham (Anderson) – seeks Pip out as a playmate for her adopted daughter, Estella.; ; Pip falls almost instantly in love with Estella and realises that he needs to be more than a simple blacksmith’s apprentice if he ever hopes to win her. But Miss Havisham – a bride-to-be who was jilted at the alter years ago and still wears her wedding dress amidst the fossilised ruins of her wedding feast – has gone to great lengths to ensure that Estella will never so much as risk heartbreak, raising her more as a tool for vengeance than a child.; ; But when Pip is mysteriously plucked from obscurity and lured to London by an anonymous benefactor hoping to make a gentleman out of him, he suddenly has unlimited wealth at his disposal – and true love in his future. Or so he thinks. ;
• Cast: Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, David Suchet, Douglas Booth, Jack Roth, Paul Rhys, Shaun Dooley, Vanessa Kirby, Mark Addy, Harry Lloyd, Mary Roscoe, Paul Ritter, Tom Burke, Steve Lately, Susan Lynch, Claire Rushbrook, Perdita Weeks, Frances Barber, Brian Kirk
• Director: Brian Kirk
• Runtime: 3:00
• Company: BBC
• Media Format: Series