In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip learns from his lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a secret benefactor desires for him to become a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone insane as a result of being abandoned at the altar as a young woman, and has turned her charge into a perverted, emotionless heartbreaker.
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In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip learns from his lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a secret benefactor desires for him to become a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone insane as a result of being abandoned at the altar as a young woman, and has turned her charge into a perverted, emotionless heartbreaker.
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