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Name: Great Expectations
Released: 1998-1-30
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft

Great Expectations

R
1h 52m
1998

39%

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An aspiring artist (Ethan Hawke) who has been obsessed since childhood with Estella (Gwyneth Paltrow), the niece of a very wealthy woman, convinces the adult Estella to model for him. This leads to the possibility of Finn's dearest hopes being realized, along with his darkest fears, in this contemporary retelling the Charles Dickens classic that also stars Robert De Niro and Anne Bancroft.

Director:

Alfonso Cuaron

Producer:

Art Linson

Writer:

Mitch Glazer

Cast:

Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

39%

Critics Consensus: Great Expectations is all surface tension: beautiful people shot in beautiful locations without any depth or emotion.

Reviews

The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)

Dan DiNicola

The film has a defining contemporary hipness, and features good work by Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. But it's more a meditation on its source than a filming of it.

Where the film fails is in its commercial proclivity to centre the narrative trajectory around a fairly asinine updating of the Pip/Estella love-match into a soppy romance.

Visually stunning retelling has nudity, lots of swearing.

Cuarn and company end up throwing all the style they've got at the film... to compensate for a perpetually stalled drama.

June 22, 2017

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