“Great Expectations” quotes
(1998)Alfonso Cuarón
directed this movie
in 1998
Title Great Expectations
Year 1998
Director Alfonso Cuarón
Genre Drama, Romance
Year 1998
Director Alfonso Cuarón
Genre Drama, Romance
Plot – Finn Bell is an eight-year-old boy who lives with his sister Maggie and his Uncle Joe in a village near the gulf of Florida. Life is tough, but little Finn, who dreams to become a famous painter, is happy about it anyway. The boy spends his time painting the beautiful colors of the gulf. Finn’s journey toward maturity begins in a traumatic way, with the sudden and shocking appearance of a dangerous fugitive, who asks him to help him escape.
All actors – Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Josh Mostel, Kim Dickens, Nell Campbell, Gabriel Mann, Jeremy James Kissner, Raquel Beaudene, Stephen Spinella, Marla Sucharetza, Isabelle Anderson, Peter Jacobson, Drena De Niro, Lance Reddick, Craig Braun, Kim Snyder, Nicholas Wolfert, Gerry Bamman, Dorin Seymour, Clem Caserta, Frank Pietrangolare, Dennis Paladino, Clem Caserta Jr., Marc Macaulay, Ana Susana Gerardino, Francis Dumaurier, Pedro Barquin, Kendall Williamson, Shobha Jain, Aditi Jain, Margo Peace, Kimmy Suzuki, John P. Casey, Adusah Boakye, Dyan Kane, Anne Ok, Alva Chinn, G.B. Thomas, Albert Zihenni, Fritz Michel, Lisa Herth, Nino Pepicelli, Wills Robbins, Jewel Turner, Jim Taylor McNickle, Martin Alvin, William Rothlein, Gary Newton, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Paul Neglio, Stephen Sherman
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“I put aside the fantasy and the wealthy, and the heavenly girl who did not want me. None of it would happen to me again. I'd seen through it. I elected to grow up.”
“What's it like not to feel anything?”
“- Estella: Can you ever forgive me?
- Finnegan Bell: Don't you know me at all?”“Don't you understand that everything I do, I do it for you. Everything that might be special in me, is you.”
“This is my heart and it’s broken.”
“I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it.”
“We are who we are. People don't change.”
“- Finnegan Bell: That's a big cat! That's the biggest cat I've ever seen! What do you feed it?
- Ms. Dinsmoor: Other cats.”“You don’t have to be embarrassed by me anymore. I’m rich! Isn’t that what you want? Isn’t it great? Are we happy now?”
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