Is Great Expectations right for your family?
Series 2011 60 min/ep.
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.
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The story of an orphan becoming a gentleman, reuniting with his love, and dealing with a mad benefactor suggests themes of romance and heavy emotional content.
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