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Title: Great Expectations (1998)
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| 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 | |
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Isabelle Anderson | ... | Lois Pope |
Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern-day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him. Written by Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>
It is always going to be a challenge to take a classic novel and turn it into be a movie that will satisfy everyone, especially when the story is being changed and adapted to fit a modern setting. If what you want to find from this movie is an exact translation of the book you will be unimpressed.
I personally loved this movie, it is completely stylish thanks to a brilliant soundtrack and the gorgeous leads Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow (who is cast perfectly as the beautiful ice queen). They are helped along by a strong supporting cast of Anne Bancroft (wonderfully eccentric as Ms. Nora Dinsmoor), Chris Cooper and Robert DiNero.
The problem, however, is that in trying to fit a story as long and complicated as Great expectations' into a 90 minute movie you loose a lot of the development of the characters necessary to identify and have an emotional reaction to them.
Rather than linger on these issues Alfonso Cuaron concentrated on the visual aspect of the movie and the result is a movie that is great to watch!