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Release Date:
30 January 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
Let desire be your destiny.
Plot:
Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love. full summary | full synopsis
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Love
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Painter
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Gulf Coast
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Charles Dickens
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Awards:
1 win
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1 nomination
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(41 articles)
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Review: Modern Family - Great Expectations
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(From Cinematical. 20 November 2009, 12:48 PM, PST)
Review: Modern Family - Great Expectations
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A Creative "Attempt" at a Literary Masterpiece
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ethan Hawke | ... | Finnegan Bell |
 | Gwyneth Paltrow | ... | Estella |
 | Hank Azaria | ... | Walter Plane |
 | Chris Cooper | ... | Joe |
 | Anne Bancroft | ... | Ms. Dinsmoor |
 | Robert De Niro | ... | Prisoner / Lustig |
 | Josh Mostel | ... | Jerry Ragno |
 | Kim Dickens | ... | Maggie |
| Nell Campbell | ... | Erica Thrall |
 | Gabriel Mann | ... | Owen (as Gabriel Mick) |
| Jeremy James Kissner | ... | Finnegan at Age 10 |
| Raquel Beaudene | ... | Estella at Age 10 |
| Stephen Spinella | ... | Carter Macleish |
 | Marla Sucharetza | ... | Ruth Shepard |
| Isabelle Anderson | ... | Lois Pope |
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and some sexuality.
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Runtime:
111 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L |
USA:R (certificate #35333) |
Philippines:PG-13 |
South Korea:15 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Belgium:KT |
Canada:14A |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Germany:12 (w) |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Mexico:B |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:M18 |
Singapore:PG (cut) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15
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Alfonso Cuarón always use the green (he even auditioned green eyed girls for A Little Princess (1995)) as the main color of its movies. He uses red and orange (complimentary and opposite colors) to make some remarks.
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Continuity: While on the subway looking at Finn's sketch book, the blood on Lustig's fingers changes in amount and placement throughout the scene.
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Finn:
Estella?
Estella: Finn? Is that you?
Finn: Is that your little girl?
Estella: Yes. I had to bring her. I wanted to show her this place.
Finn: Have you been back often?
Estella: No.
Finn: Me either.
Estella: So... I hear all about you. You're doing great.
Finn: I'm doing okay.
Estella: Things have been... different for me. For a long time, I kept...
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Estella: Finn? Is that you?
Finn: Is that your little girl?
Estella: Yes. I had to bring her. I wanted to show her this place.
Finn: Have you been back often?
Estella: No.
Finn: Me either.
Estella: So... I hear all about you. You're doing great.
Finn: I'm doing okay.
Estella: Things have been... different for me. For a long time, I kept...
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Little Britain: Bath of Beans (#1.1)" (2003)
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Soundtrack:
Bésame Mucho
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Hollywood and the movie industry have made many bold moves over the past decade in bringing to life old classics. None however have been done more boldly than the remoulding of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Charles Dicken's Great Expectations. Both are daring attempts to rebirth a storyline from the distant past, as a tale told in our modern times. I say attempt because in both cases, as good a job the cast and crew did, there was something lacking in these new renditions. Great Expectations, the movie, lacks many qualities that make the novel a success. It cannot be said to be a total loss, the basic elements are intact, it is only the embellishments Charles Dickens developed in the novel to make the story more realistic that are missing.
One success, I must admit that I observed while watching the film was the rich visual setting. Although not taking presented in the same place, or era Great Expectations, the movie, is a feast for the eyes. It captivates the mind with beautiful shots of the rural Florida coast life, and yet still retains the jumbled, rundown atmosphere that is described of Pip's small birthplace in a small English town. These qualities of squalor are evident in the impoverished coastal fishing village of the movie. The best achievement in cinematography, is the in-depth views of Pardiso Perduto, a sister mansion to the decaying Satis house of the novel. Even the scenes of New York, the city of "expectations" for our youthful protagonist, Finn, has contrasting aspects of rich beauty and unsightly slums that the London of the nineteen century demonstrated. This is the most major achievement for the film; to capture on film a most ingenious modern equivalent of Charles Dicken's astute descriptions.
Unlike some attempts to revamp literary successes the movie at least retains some of the dignity of Dicken's work. The core of his novel is intact within the screenplay. Also many ingenious ideas were used in some plot changes, and cinematography. Overall it is not a bad representation of the novel.