Great Expectations

A melancholic Victorian romance about ambition, class, and the emotional damage of unfulfilled love, centered on a young man's pursuit of a woman shaped by her guardian's bitterness.

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.