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Great Expectations

6.3 168 mins Drama   Romance   1999
BBC   GBH  
Director(s): Julian Jarrold

Release Date: 12 Mon, Apr 1999

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Casts of Great Expectations

Ioan Gruffudd

as Pip

Justine Waddell

as Estella

Charlotte Rampling

as Miss Havisham

Laura Aikman

as Young Biddy

Nicholas Blane

as Wopsle

Selina Cadell

as Sarah Pocket

Jo Cameron Brown

as Miss Skiffins

Tony Curran

as Orlick

Ian McDiarmid

as Jaggers

Clive Russell

as Joe Gargery

Lesley Sharp

as Mrs. Joe

Donald Sumpter

as Compeyson

Nicholas Woodeson

as Wemmick

James Hillier

as Bentley Drummle

Ifan Meredith

as Startop

Emma Cunniffe

as Biddy

Laurence Dobiesz

as Young Herbert

Sarah Durham

as Maid

Daniel Evans

as Herbert Pocket

Gemma Gregory

as Young Estella

Bernard Hill

as Abel Magwitch

David Horovitch

as Matthew Pocket

Alex Leppard

as Gaoler

Hugh Lloyd

as The Aged P

Roland Manookian

as Pip's Servant

Laila Morse

as Molly

Lockhart Ogilvie

as Gentleman

Terence Rigby

as Pumbleneck

Angela Sims

as Estella's Attendant

Michael Eaves

as Police Officer

Gabriel Thomson

as Young Pip

Ryan John Monaghan

as Pickpocket

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