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Great Expectations

Movie (1998)


Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him.

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Released: Jan 30th, 1998
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Great Expectations Main Cast

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Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke
plays Finnegan Bell
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow
plays Estella
Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria
plays Walter Plane
Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper
plays Joe
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft
plays Ms. Dinsmoor
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Movie Trivia/Goofs

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  • Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During the beginning sequence where the young Finn is splashing through the shallow water, drawing in his notebook, you can see indentations in the page indicating where the creatures eye is to be drawn
  • Movie Goof (factual errors): In the scene in which Lustig is shown on TV, the commentator mentions Lustig is due for death by lethal injection. Florida only began offering lethal injection relatively recently. When Finn was a boy, the method would have been the electric chair.
  • In his book, "What Just Happened?", producer Art Linson reveals that the narration in the movie was written by David Mamet. It was done for free, on the condition that nobody ever find out he did it.
  • Movie Goof (errors in geography): When Arthur Lustig visits Finn, Finn gives him his address as 111 Greenwhich St., which is south of the World Trade Center. The nearest subway stop is the Rector St. 1/9 train. Yet when Finn takes Arthur to the subway, they end up at the J/M/Z Chambers St. stop. When a subway train does come, miraculously it is the G train, which is the only train in the system that does not enter Manhattan at all. In addition, none of the above mentioned trains would take Arthur to JFK, his stated destination, without at least one transfer.
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