Great Expectations (1998)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 111 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro
IMDb score:
6,8 (59.896)
Releasedate: 30 January 1998
Great Expectations plot
"Let desire be your destiny."
Finn Bell, a boy of not too wealthy descent, falls in love with the wealthy Estella as a 10-year-old. They lose sight of each other, but meet again years later in New York. Finn is now, with financial help from an unknown person, a successful painter. The film is a modern version of the novel by Charles Dickens.
Actors and actresses
Finnegan Bell
Estella
Walter Plane
Joe
Ms. Dinsmoor
Prisoner / Lustig
Jerry Ragno
Maggie
Erica Thall
Owen
Reviews & comments
K. V.
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- 4376 messages
- 3777 votes
This one was on TV and I gave it a try. I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought it was a good film and a fascinating story. Of course you know how it will end, but it didn't bother me.
The cast also did a great job and the movie looked good.
I thought it was worth a look.
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8441 votes
Actually, the transfer of Dickens' novel to a few centuries later is somewhat disappointing.
Bittersweet about an unattainable love yet too much really bobbing about the same thing, the romance between beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke.
Film lacks power and conviction to really involve the viewer in the event and is therefore rather moderately successful.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4430 messages
- 3110 votes
Mmm.
Alfonso Cuarón doing a modern film adaptation of a book by Charles Dickens: it sounds promising. And it must be said that it does feel fresh enough at times, but the film has one big flaw and that is that Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow are not the right protagonists. Too mediocre acting, too little charisma and too little chemistry. Hawke is a bit too bumbling and Paltrow, while not an ugly appearance, lacks the sex appeal for rightfully rattling the man's cherries like that.
Other than that, the film looks pretty good. The supporting roles of Anne Bancroft and Robert De Niro are somewhat noncommittal, but well acted. The soundtrack, on the other hand, really appeals to me and still provides some emotion in the wooden relationship between Hawke's character and Paltrow's.
2.5
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