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Great Expectations (1997)
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The key ingredient in this modern-day version of Charles Dickens's classic is director Alfonso Cuarón, who made the glowing, estimable A Little Princess. If you saw that (and you should), understand that Expectations has those ingredients (great sense of time, place, and timing) but adds modern music and sex appeal; the latter personified by the long-legged Gwyneth Paltrow. Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke as an adult, Jeremy James Kissner at age 10) is the new version of Dickens's Pip. He's a child wise beyond his years, befriending an escaped convict (Robert De Niro) in the warm waters of Florida's Gulf Coast. Finn is...
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| Great Expectations Movie Review by Julie (4/16/2008) |
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I certainly wasn't. Expecting great things, that is, when I rented Alfonso Cuaron's 1998 film Great Expectations. I basically just Netflixed it because it was a Cuaron film that I hadn't seen, and since he is one of my (maybe my all time) favorite directors ever, I thought it necessary that I see every one of his films....
(complete Great Expectations review by Julie)
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