Sick,” she hisses to herself as she forces Pip and Estella to play her cruel games, with a feral glee in her eyes that would not look out of place on Gollum. Much of Great Expectations ...

Olivia Colman as "Miss Havisham," Tom Sweet as "Young Pip" and Chloe Lea as "Young Estella" in "Great Expectations" (Miya Mizuno/FX) On the page, Miss Havisham's sick game is one of cards ...

The film explores Pip's transformation and the societal pressures of Victorian respectability, ultimately leading to a realization of the true nature of his expectations. Keywords Great ...

Even Jaggers’ title-spawning announcement of Pip’s “great expectations” has been erased in favor of “I’ll teach you first to be a rat, then a snake, then a vulture, then with blood ...

Great Expectations has started airing on BBC One and it features a star-studded cast. Pip is taken in by mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham (played by Olivia Colman) who shows him a dark world ...

According to the synopsis: Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of “Pip,” an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the ...

I know I would have continued with the John Mill’s “Great Expectations” version from 1946 had it had Knight’s cast which includes Sara, (Hayley Squires) Harris’s Magwitch, young Pip (Tom ...

even one as revered as “Great Expectations,” is some kind of sacred text is ridiculous. But when the changes undercut a novel’s meaning, it feels like exploitation. In the novel, Pip is ...

(As Pip) Pip, ma'am. PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: We're in a hall in a community center in Frodsham, a small market town in northwest England. The play is "Great Expectations." DICKENS: (As Miss ...

“Great Expectations”: In a rundown, dust-bunnied estate, a zonked-out Miss Havisham (Olivia Colman) takes a long pull on a pipe packed with opium; later she coerces poor Pip, the older ...

There are obviously reasons for making this “Great Expectations,” but they have more to do with the TV business than with Dickens. Affairs start more or less as they do on the page.