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
Great Expectations (1998 film) wrote: ""Great Expectations" begins as a great movie (I was spellbound by the first 30 minutes), but ends as only a good one, and I think that's because the screenplay, by Mitch Glazer, too closely follows the romantic line." Ethan Hawke commented on the film's release that it had the bad fortune to overlap with the release of "Titanic", which premiered in theatres only two weeks before "Great Expectations". He stated that "nobody gave a s**t about anything but "Titanic" for about 9 months after...particularly another romance..." All of Finn's artwork and portraits of the main characters in the film