Great Expectations (1998 film) were done by Francesco Clemente, an Italian painter. The actors sat for him in private. A gallery of some of the paintings is available for viewing at Fox's website devoted to the film. Great Expectations (1998 film) Great Expectations is a 1998 contemporary film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name, co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Robert De Niro, Anne Bancroft and Chris Cooper. It is known for having moved the setting of the original novel from 1812-1827 London to 1990s New York. The film is an abridged
Pip (Great Expectations) their experience of life. After they reconcile, they hold hands, and Pip sees no shadow to part them again. The novel has been adapted into films often. The character of Pip has been played in films (in order by year through 2012) by: Jack Pickford (1917)<br>Phillips Holmes (1934)<br>John Mills (1946)<br>Dinsdale Landen (1959)<br>Gary Bond (1967)<br>Simon Gipps-Kent (1974)<br>Michael York (1974)<br>Gerry Sundquist (1981)<br>Todd Boyce (1986)<br>Anthony Calf (1989)<br>Ethan Hawke (1998)<br>Ioan Gruffudd (1999)<br>Douglas Booth (2011)<br>Jeremy Irvine (2012) Pip (Great Expectations) Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel "Great Expectations" (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English