Great Expectations (1998 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 modernization of Dickens's 1861 novel, with the hero's name having also been changed from Pip to Finn, and the character Miss Havisham has been renamed Nora Dinsmoor. The film received mixed reviews. Ten-year-old
MV Great Expectations MV Great Expectations "Hythe Scene" (formerly MV "Great Expectations") is a catamaran ferry operating on the Hythe ferry service. This service connects the town of Hythe and the city of Southampton, across Southampton Water in England. MV "Great Expectations" was originally introduced in 1992 and was originally used on the Gravesend to Tilbury ferry service across the River Thames in Kent, which was at that time operated by White Horse Ferries Ltd. She was named after the Charles Dickens novel, "Great Expectations", in which the countryside of Kent and the marshes on the lower regions of the Thames feature heavily.