Great Expectations (1999) (TV)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Julian Jarrold

Escritores:

Charles Dickens (novel)
Tony Marchant (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 mayo 1999 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Young Pip is expected to become a blacksmith, but, hating the soot and smoke, he secretly dreams of becoming a gentleman...

Plot Keywords:

Blacksmith | Benefactor | Money | Man Haters | Ward

Premios:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Captivating and beautiful

Reparto

Ioan Gruffudd	...	Pip
Justine Waddell	...	Estella
Charlotte Rampling	...	Miss Havisham
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Laura Aikman	...	Young Biddy
Nicholas Blane	...	Wopsle
Selina Cadell	...	Sarah Pocket
Jo Cameron Brown	...	Miss Skiffins
Emma Cunniffe	...	Biddy
Tony Curran	...	Orlick
Laurence Dobiesz	...	Young Herbert
Leo Dolan	...	Sheriff's Officer
Sarah Durham	...	Maid
Michael Eaves	...	Police Officer
Daniel Evans	...	Herbert Pocket
Gemma Gregory	...	Young Estella
Bernard Hill	...	Abel Magwitch
James Hillier	...	Bentley Drummle
David Horovitch	...	Matthew Pocket
Alex Leppard	...	Gaoler
Hugh Lloyd	...	The Aged P
Roland Manookian	...	Pip's Servant
Ian McDiarmid	...	Jaggers
Ifan Meredith	...	Startop
Laila Morse	...	Molly
Terence Rigby	...	Pumblechook
Clive Russell	...	Joe Gargery
Lesley Sharp	...	Mrs Joe
Angela Sims	...	Estella's Attendant
Philippa Stanton	...	Clara
Reggie Stewart	...	Sergeant
Richard Stirling	...	Presiding Finch
Donald Sumpter	...	Compeyson
Bill Thomas	...	Tailor
Gabriel Thomson	...	Young Pip
Timothy Tranter	...	Young Orlick
Norman Tyrrell	...	Judge
Sandra Voe	...	Camilla Pocket
Nicholas Woodeson	...	Wemmick

Duración:

Canada:168 min (Ontario)

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Griego

Color:

Color

Compañía:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Citas:

Miss Havisham: You cold, cold heart!
Estella: Do you reproach ME of being cold? I learned your lessons. I am what you have made me.
Miss Havisham: So proud!
Estella: Who taught me to be proud? Who told me that daylight would blight me, that I may not go out in it and now I cannot? I have never once been unfaithful to you or to your 'schooling'. I have never shown any weakness that I can charge myself with!
Miss Havisham: Would it be weakness to return respect? To return love?
Estella: 'Love'?

Conexiones de Película:

Version of The Boy and the Convict. (1909)

Captivating and beautiful

I've seen some three or four adaptations of this classic novel, and I honestly think that this is one of the best out there. The settings are appropriately dark and in keeping with Dickens' bleak writing, a shining example being Miss Havisham's mansion. The acting is perfectly superb; Ioan Gruffudd is most definitely one of the best finds of the past few years. Ian McDiaramid is wonderful as usual, and Gruffudd's Titanic castmate Bernard Hill (that movie's Captain EJ Smith) is a great Magwitch. Keep your eye on Ioan, I predict great things! His performance is outstanding, down to the replacing of his own Welsh accent with Pip's distinctive lower-class English one. Lovely filming, great direction and wonderful acting make this a great addition to the already distinguished collection of the BBC.