Great Expectations

Great Expectations

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

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Release Date

12/26/1946

Runtime

118 mins

Overview

In this Dickens adaptation, 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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

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A richly textured Victorian melodrama about ambition and yearning, where a young man's dreams of gentility entangle him with a woman shaped by heartbreak into emotional cruelty. Dickens' tale of lost innocence and the price of ambition unfolds with formal elegance and deep emotional weight.

Mood

MelancholicRomanticWistfulContemplative

Themes

Coming of ageLoveIdentityRedemptionClass

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

PainterlyHigh-contrastBlack and white

Structure

Framed flashback

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