Great Expectations (2012) on Netflix
Lawyer Mr. Jaggers tells the orphan Pip that a mysterious benefactor wants him made into a gentleman. Miss Havisham, his childhood patron, and Estella, his first love, come back into his life.
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Plot summary
Pip is an orphan, and his brother-in-law Joe Gargery is his legal guardian. The lawyer Mr. Jaggers brings him word that a mysterious benefactor intends to make him a gentleman, and Jaggers handles the money. Miss Havisham was Pip's childhood patron; she is a wealthy spinster who lives in seclusion after losing her love. Estella, Miss Havisham's charge, was his first love, and she is beautiful but emotionally cold. Pip is reunited with Miss Havisham and with Estella.
Cast
- Richard Jamesas Cousin Raymond
- Roberta Burtonas Mrs. Raymond
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Great Expectations (2012)
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- Helena Bonham Carter questioned Mike Newell when he phoned her about playing Miss Havisham, worried by the character's usual look, which she called a pensioner in a bridesmaids dress. Newell assured her the book's Havisham is in her forties, and she accepted the part.
- David Nicholls said picking the ending was a problem, because Dickens wrote both a downbeat and a more positive version. Their solution was to make it work as a love story "without sentimentalising the book", having criticized the ending of David Lean's version.
- The main filming location was the former headquarters of Gillette on the A4 road, whose interior was transformed into a Victorian era street scene.
- Great Expectations was Robbie Coltrane's first Dickens-related role. He had been offered Mr Micawber in a David Copperfield adaptation years earlier but had been unable to take it.
