Great Expectations

Prepare for a life of great expectations.

A melancholic 19th-century romance about social aspiration and emotional damage, where a young man's pursuit of gentility and love is shadowed by the psychological wounds of those around him.

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.