Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Great Expectations has generally received positive reviews.
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Great Expectations was released in 2012 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 155 reviews, giving Great Expectations (2012) an average rating of 61%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 69%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 62%.
With a score of 61%, Great Expectations is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2012, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2012 with similar scores include films like The Bourne Legacy, Act of Valor and Ginger & Rosa.
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