It's a fairly minor film, but quite lovely and successful at creating its own time and place.
Great Expectations (1998)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:12
Rotten:19
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A rising artist, flourishing with the help of a benefactor, falls fruitlessly in love with his wealthy childhood playmate, who has grown to be a beautiful coquette. But the nefarious influence of... A rising artist, flourishing with the help of a benefactor, falls fruitlessly in love with his wealthy childhood playmate, who has grown to be a beautiful coquette. But the nefarious influence of her eccentric, spiteful maiden aunt taints their relationship. A stylish, heavily romantic updating of the eponymous Dickens classic, staged in 1970s south Florida. Bancroft, as the "Miss Havisham" character, steals the show. [More]
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Josh Mostel, Kim Dickens, Nell Campbell, Gabriel Mick, Jeremy James Kissner, Raquel Beaudene, Stephen Spinella, Marla Sucharetza, Isabelle Anderson
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Story: Charles Dickens
Screenwriter: Mitch Glazer
Composer: Patrick Doyle
Producer: Art Linson
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Reviews for Great Expectations
The drama has a surface charm and panache that draws out the romantic in all of us.
In the end, shiny surfaces are just that--surfaces, with nothing necessarily underneath.
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.
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.
Sua 'moral' pode até ser simples, como em todas as fábulas, mas o processo pela qual é 'ensinada' é interessante - e espantosamente otimista.
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