# Grandi speranze (1946)

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**Original title**: *Great Expectations*
**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: David Lean
**Written by**: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan
**Starring**: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan

> *From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A orphaned boy with delusions of grandeur gets handed a fortune and the illusion of class by a shadowy patron, only to learn that his new life is built on a foundation of trauma and delusion. He returns to the decaying estate of Miss Havisham, a ghost of a bride who’s spent decades training a porcelain doll to break men’s hearts—his included. By the time he realizes he’s been manipulated by the very people he thought were above him, the illusion has cracked, leaving only the mess.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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