 Great Expectations 1999  TV, 180 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Bernard Hill, Ian McDiarmid, Selina Cadell, Emma Cunniffe, Tony Curran, Gemma Gregory, David Horovitch, Clive Russell, Ifan Meredith, Lesley Sharp, Gabriel Thomson
In this BBC version of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," Ioan Gruffudd takes on the role of working-class Pip who dreams of rising to "gentleman" status in order to win the love of the elusive Estella (Gemma Gregory as young Estella and Justine Waddell as older Estella) who has been taught by the bitter Miss Haversham (Charlotte Rampling) to have higher expectations than those of Pip. Orphaned Pip (Gabriel Thomson as young Pip) has been raised by blacksmith Joe Gargery (Clive Russell) and his wife (Lesley Sharp). As a child, Pip saves the life of convict Matwitch (Bernard Hill), and now Pip finds that a mysterious benefactor has given him wealth. It turns out that the benefactor is Matwitch, and Pip is on his way to gaining his "gentleman" status in the Victorian world of the social elite.
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The New Adventures of Pinocchio 1999  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Martin Landau, Udo Kier, Gabriel Thomson, Gemma Gregory, Warwick Davis, Sarah Alexander, Simon Schatzberber, Ben Ridgeway, Alain Brizzi, Jusif Mustafaev
Pinocchio (Gabriel Thomson) approaches carnival owner Madame Flambeau (Udo Kier) from whom he buys an elixir that is supposed to cure any ill. But, when Geppetto (Martin Landau) drinks the elixir, he becomes a puppet also. In search of a way to reverse the process, Pinocchio and Geppetto head off on an adventure to help Geppetto.
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