Description
Great Expectations 1998
This modern adaptation of Dickens’ classic coming of age story sees the young and naïve Finn, who falls in love with Estella, a girl raised with the strict intention of breaking men’s hearts. When he is grown up and living in New York, having become a successful painter, Estella reappears in his life and Finn falls deeply in love, knowing all the while that it is a feeling that can never be returned.
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.
Video: Great Expectations 1998 (Trailer)
| 1 | Tori Amos– | Finn (Intro) | 1:50 |
| 2 | Tori Amos– | Siren | 4:02 |
| 3 | Mono– | Life In Mono | 3:47 |
| 4 | Chris Cornell– | Sunshower | 5:53 |
| 5 | Reef– | Resignation | 3:36 |
| 6 | Pulp– | Like A Friend | 3:58 |
| 7 | Duncan Sheik– | Wishful Thinking | 4:25 |
| 8 | Poe– | Today | 4:08 |
| 9 | Scott Weiland– | Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down | 5:26 |
| 10 | The Verve Pipe– | Her Ornament | 3:11 |
| 11 | Lauren Christy– | Walk This Earth Alone | 4:32 |
| 12 | Fisher (2)– | Breakable | 3:46 |
| 13 | Iggy Pop– | Success | 4:23 |
| 14 | Davíd Garza*– | Slave | 3:23 |
| 15 | The Grateful Dead– | Uncle John’s Band | 4:30 |
| 16 | Cesaria Evora– | Besame Mucho | 4:52 |
