An orphan boy meets an escaped convict, a crazed rich woman, a bewitching girl, and grows up to have great expectations of wealth from a mysterious patron, on GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Charles Dickens’ remarkable tale of rags to riches to self-knowledge, starring Gillian Anderson (THE X-FILES, BLEAK HOUSE), David Suchet, Ray Winstone, and Douglas Booth. Anderson appears as one of Dickens’ most haunting creations: Miss Havisham, a bride-to-be who was jilted at the altar years before and has worn her fading wedding dress ever since, surrounded at home by the fossilized remains of the marriage feast and hell-bent on getting even with the male sex. Newcomer Booth stars as Pip, the promising young man who is snared in Miss Havisham’s lair.
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