Great Expectations

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.

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David Lean directed Great Expectations in 1946. See David Lean's full filmography, where to start with David Lean, or where to go after you've seen everything by David Lean.

Great Expectations was released in 1946 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 118 minutes.