MASTERPIECE: GREAT EXPECTATIONS (U.K. EDITION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 2011
• Genre: Classic; Drama
• Plot: Nothing is quite as it seems in this lush retelling of Dickens’ classic coming of age story, with colourful characters - conspirators, rouges, rakes and wretches - including stunning performances by Gillian Anderson, David Suchet, Ray Winstone, Douglas Booth, and Venessa Kirby.; ; Young orphan Pip wants no more from life than to one day join his brother-in-law Jo at the blacksmiths’ forge. Until, that is, fate intervenes – twice. First, an escaped convict (Winstone) ambushes Pip in the marshes; and not long after, a wealthy, reclusive neighbour at the macabre Satis House – Miss Havisham (Anderson) – seeks Pip out as a playmate for her adopted daughter, Estella.; ; Pip falls almost instantly in love with Estella and realises that he needs to be more than a simple blacksmith’s apprentice if he ever hopes to win her. But Miss Havisham – a bride-to-be who was jilted at the alter years ago and still wears her wedding dress amidst the fossilised ruins of her wedding feast – has gone to great lengths to ensure that Estella will never so much as risk heartbreak, raising her more as a tool for vengeance than a child.; ; But when Pip is mysteriously plucked from obscurity and lured to London by an anonymous benefactor hoping to make a gentleman out of him, he suddenly has unlimited wealth at his disposal – and true love in his future. Or so he thinks. ;
• Cast: Ray Winstone; Gillian Anderson; David Suchet; Douglas Booth; Jack Roth; Paul Rhys; Shaun Dooley; Vanessa Kirby; Mark Addy; Harry Lloyd; Mary Roscoe; Paul Ritter; Tom Burke; Steve Lately; Susan Lynch; Claire Rushbrook; Perdita Weeks; Frances Barber; Brian Kirk
• Director: Brian Kirk
• Runtime: 3:00
• Company: BBC
• Media Format: Series