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Great expectations [videorecording (DVD)].

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PBS Distribution, c2012.

DVD GRE 2012 Dra

English literature -- 19th century -- Television adaptations.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Video Difference legacy collection (Dalhousie)

[videorecording (DVD)].

Original UK ed.

1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

A copy of this DVD was generously donated to Dalhousie University by DHX Media Ltd. as part of a shared Video Difference Collection between Dalhousie University and Halifax Public Libraries. PLEASE NOTE: As this DVD belongs to Dalhousie, it may be recalled for use in courses and therefore made temporarily unavailable for users of Halifax Public Libraries.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Videodisc release of the 3-part BBC television drama as seen on PBS series "Masterpiece classic" in 2011.

English (SDH) subtitles for the hearing impaired.

Screenplay by Sarah Phelps ; produced by George Ormond ; directed by Brian Kirk.

Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, David Suchet and Douglas Booth.

"Nothing is quite as it seems in this lush retelling of Dickens' classic coming-of-age story with colorful characters – conspirators, rogues, rakes, and wretches – and stunning performances by Gillian Anderson, David Suchet, Ray Winstone, Douglas Booth, and Vanessa Kirby. Young orphan Pip wants no more from life than to one day join his brother-in-law Joe at the blacksmith's forge. Until, that is, fate intervenes – twice. First, an escaped convict (Winstone) ambushes Pip in the marshes; and not long after, a wealthy, reclusive neighbor at the macabre Satis House – Miss Havisham (Andersen) – seeks Pip out as a playmate for her adopted daughter, Estella. Pip falls almost instantly in love with Estella, and realizes that he needs to be more than a simple blacksmith's apprentice if he ever hopes to win her. But Miss Havisham – a bride-to-be who was jilted at the altar years ago and still wears her wedding dress amidst the fossilized ruins of her wedding feast – has gone to great lengths to ensure that Estella will never so much as risk heartbreak, raising her more as a tool for vengeance than a child. But when Pip is mysteriously plucked from obscurity and lured to London by an anonymous benefactor hoping to make a gentleman out of him, he suddenly has unlimited wealth at his disposal – and true love in his future. Or so he thinks."--Container.

Coming-of-age television programs.

Coming-of-age films.

Television mini-series.

Television programs -- Great Britain.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations. Television adaptations.

Kirk, Brian, 1968-

Winstone, Ray, 1957-

Anderson, Gillian, 1968-

Booth, Douglas, 1992-

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