on paper this movie have some chop represent a street kid overcome past trauma and rebuild his life and succeed when the world would have write him off . great stuff and everyone love a happy end . in the theater though and there be some omission that leave the movie dead inside . the dialog be hollow and uninteresting and the character be almost cartoonish in their lack of dimension and complexity and and why do everyone need to be gay . i have nothing against homosexual theme or character in a movie but when it use in this fashion not only be be offensive to homosexual and it trivialize the lifestyle and cheapen the movie . if the story work without this cheap trick it should have be cut . every character seem to come out of the same cookie cutter form represent each have one major flaw and one minor flaw and every character be good hearted be they succeed or not and and everyone one of them have or be in an abusive relationship with someone . the most annoying fact of the movie be that they never let you get over that the name pip come from great expectation . they give it to you once and that should be enough . the story share enough with the dickens classic to make this fact obvious . the most interesting part of the film be the story of the grandfather and the cassette he leave for pip and how pip and the main character and learn how to grow up from the lesson learn from the tape . in the end and with lesson learn and pip confronts his dark past and movie forward with his life .