Film


Great Expectations

Dir: David Lean
Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager
118mins   1946   UK   PG   English   

In this Dickens adaptation, 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.

'This is still the definitive version of Charles Dickens' amospheric and occasionally creepy classic' - David Parkinson, Empire

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Showtimes


Mon 16 December

11:00