Great Expectations (1998)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 21
Great Expectations is all surface tension: beautiful people shot in beautiful locations without any depth or emotion.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 4
Great Expectations is all surface tension: beautiful people shot in beautiful locations without any depth or emotion.
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Movie Info
Alfonso Cuaron (The Little Princess) directed this Mitch Glazer screenplay, a modernization of the 1860-61 classic by Charles Dickens. Some situations in the film are presented as memories -- the way the central figure, Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke) recalls events many years later. At a Florida fishing village, eight-year-old orphan Finn Bell (Jeremy James Kissner), talented at art, is left in the care of his sister and her husband, Joe (Chris Cooper). One day, Finn helps a chained, escaped
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Cast
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Ethan Hawke
Finnegan Bell -
Gwyneth Paltrow
Estella -
Hank Azaria
Walter Plane -
Chris Cooper
Joe -
Anne Bancroft
Ms. Dinsmoor -
Robert De Niro
Lustig Prisoner -
Josh Mostel
Jerry Ragno -
Kim Dickens
Maggie -
Nell Campbell
Erica Thrall -
Gabriel Mick
Owen -
Jeremy James Kissner
Finnegan age 10 -
Raquel Beaudene
Estella age 10 -
Stephen Spinella
Carter Macleish -
Fritz Michel
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Cuarón and company end up throwing all the style they've got at the film... to compensate for a perpetually stalled drama.
In the end, shiny surfaces are just that--surfaces, with nothing necessarily underneath.
It's a fairly minor film, but quite lovely and successful at creating its own time and place.
Charles Dickens' novel has been pared to the bone and set in the present day, and the result is a beautifully shot mess. The characters' motivations could not be any less clear.
The film's exectution is more of a tragedy than the story.
his film doesn't have anything to say, it just wants to make a fashion statement: Pretty people should get to do stuff other people don't get to do.
Sua 'moral' pode até ser simples, como em todas as fábulas, mas o processo pela qual é 'ensinada' é interessante - e espantosamente otimista.
The drama has a surface charm and panache that draws out the romantic in all of us.
Una obra maestra.
If this movie were a sandwich, it'd be ham on white bread.
a dessert for the eyes and ears. But...in the final analysis this modernization of the Charles Dickens classic has almost nothing to say and next to no emotional impact whatsoever.
Audience Reviews for Great Expectations
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- Ms. Dinsmoor: She'll only break your heart, it's a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you'll still pursue her. Ain't love grand?
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- Lustig Prisoner: There's nothing harder than being given your chance.
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