Great expectations [DVD] / a BBC and Mobil Masterpiece Theatre presentation ; dramatised by Tony Marchant ; produced by David Snodin ; directed by Julian Jarrold ; a co-production of BBC America and WGBH Boston ; WGBH Educational Foundation.
Based on the book by Charles Dickens. Originally produced as episodes of the television program Masterpiece theatre in 1999. DVD-ROM feature includes weblink. Introduced by Russell Baker. Ioan Gruffudd, Bernard Hill, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Clive Russell, Ian McDiarmid, Gabriel Thomson, Gemma Gregory.
Summary:
Pip's life as a blacksmith's apprentice in Victorian England changes drastically when he is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman--and an equal with the contemptuous Estella.
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