Great Expectations (2013) Review of the movie

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Sandie Angulo Chen

From Sandie Angulo Chen

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Based on the research of the development of the child. How do we rate?


Age 10+







Adjusting Dickens classics retains dark topics of the book.


Age 14+







Based on 2 parent reviews

What is the story like?

In this renovation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel great expectations, Jeremy Irvine (Weather) Play the PIP, a young man whose fate forever has been changed forever: helping in nutrient crime, Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes) to make friends with her beautiful, but by the badness of her, Estella (Holliday Grainger). He was a pounding abuse of older sister (Sally Hawkins) and her warm heart in Kenta, Pip can’t pull out an ice-headed ice-hearted, even when Miss Havisham moves them to London, he moves them to London too much to prove a Lord Value Love Estella.

Is that good?

More Tweens and teenagers should consider this comfortable adjustment as an introduction to Dickens outside Christmas carol. Director Mike Newell (Harry Potter and FireboatIt is in return adjusting one English literature most often attracted stories of mystery, social climbing and how money and desire can enrich or corrupt the soul. Irvine, with his serious face and strong hands as it is probably as a blacksmith like the Lord. He plays Style-Age Pip with the initial cuteness that makes bitter, sad rounded stories about it much more terrible. Pip is so without hereditary (Grainger, beautiful and icy just like Estella could be played), can’t see how good and careful woman lydia (Jessie Cave), or how the life of the fairer should not be so easy to discard.

Newell and scenarist David Nicholls does not stick to the page on the page on Dickens’s story, and the script is firmer, generally more complex, and in a way relief (for a movie audience) over the beloved original. Bonham Carter and Fiennes are phenomenal as having a constant bitter Miss Havisham and a tragic thief of Magwitch, as well as Hawkins and Flemyng as a tape cruel sister and his surprisingly warm back. Dickens can’t color love, a banter brush like Jane Austen, but his topics are equally universal and significant.

Talk to your kids about …

  • Families can talk to why Carles Dickens’ works are still talking to people. How do class differences affect us in today’s culture? Is the money a one-way ticket for happiness? Mike Newell directed, the film contains attractive young actors Jeremy Irvine and Holliday Grainger, as well as valued veterans Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter.

  • Does the movie watch you make you a curious book? Want to see other story adaptations?

  • Do you think that by tragedy? What are your thoughts about Pip and Estelli? Is their love story or not?

  • Dickens considered Great expectations his best job. Do you agree?

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