Movie Description:
Violence and Victorian gentility meet in this powerful adaptation of one of Dicken`s greatest creations, his mostpiercing examination of upward mobility. While passing through the church- yard where his mother is buried, young Pip encounters a desperate convict, Magwitch. Soon afterward Pip issummoned by the wealthy, eccentric recluse Miss Havisham to play with her beautiful but cruel ward Estella. With theses two remarkable encountersbegns his epic journey from noyto man. When Pip comes of age, Miss Havisham`s lawyer, Jaggers, informs him he has come into great wealth. But who exactlyis the source of his mysteriousnew fortune? And perhaps itis not so easy--or desirable--to leave his humble past behind.
