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Miss Havisham is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations (1861). She is a wealthy spinster who lives in her ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place."Although she has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-fifties. However, it is also indicated that her long life away from the sunlight has in itself aged her, and she is said to look like a cross between a waxwork and a skeleton, with moving eyes.
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Filmography of Miss Havisham (6 films)
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Great Expectations (2012)
, 2h8Directed by Mike Newell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, Gillian Anderson, Holliday Grainger, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng
Rating63%
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Great Expectations (1999)
, 2h48Directed by Julian Jarrold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Thomson, Bernard Hill, Laura Aikman
Rating71%
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
Great Expectations (1998)
, 1h51Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Cooper, Jeremy James Kissner, Hank Azaria, Anne Bancroft
Rating67%
10-year-old Finnegan "Finn" Bell is playing on a beach in the Gulf Coast when an escaped convict suddenly pops out of the water and overpowers him, making Finn promise to bring back food, medicine and bolt cutters to get the iron shackles off his leg. Finn complies, and the convict unexpectedly tries to make Finn take him by boat to Mexico. The police seize the small boat heading out to sea. The convict hides on a buoy, and Finn's boat is towed back to shore. The next day, Finn sees on the news that the convict, mobster Arthur Lustig, had escaped from death row, but was recaptured and would face execution soon.
Great Expectations (1974)
, 2h4Directed by Joseph Hardy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason, Margaret Leighton, Robert Morley, Anthony Quayle
Rating60%
Un jour qu’il se rend sur la tombe de ses parents, Pip vient en aide à un évadé en volant de la nourriture chez ses tuteurs. Quelque temps plus tard, le garçon est conduit dans une étrange demeure où le temps semble s’être arrêté. Il y rencontre une sinistre vieille dame et sa jeune protégée, Estella, qui le fascine. Ces événements changeront à jamais la destinée de Pip…
Great Expectations (1946)
, 1h58Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors John Mills, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie
Rating77%
Orphan Phillip "Pip" Pirrip (Anthony Wager) lives with his shrewish older sister and her kind-hearted blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery (Bernard Miles). One day, Pip runs into an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch (Finlay Currie), who intimidates the boy into getting him some food and a file for his chains. Magwitch is caught when he attacks a hated fellow escapee, and is taken back to the prison ship.
Great Expectations (1934)
, 1h40Directed by Stuart Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Phillips Holmes, Henry Hull, Jane Wyatt, Valerie Hobson, Florence Reed, Francis L. Sullivan
Rating61%
Pirrip, âgé de 9 ans, orphelin vivant avec des parents, aide et se lie d'amitié avec un condamné évadé sur les landes, un acte qui aura un effet profond sur sa vie.