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Great Expectations
1998
· Movie
· 111 min
C
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3405
- IMDb #2696
- Rotten Tomatoes #3829
- Metacritic #3293
- Letterboxd #3475
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4269
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3637
- Metacritic Critics #2946
- Metacritic Audience #3747
- Criticker #463
- Kinopoisk #1930
- AlloCiné #2470
- Trakt #3367
Every rating
41–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 41, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 48, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.
Details
- Director
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Writer
- Mitch Glazer
- Based on
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox, Linson Entertainment
- Released
- 30 January 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $55.5M
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