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"Great Expectations" with Gwynneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, Anne Bancroft, and Robert DeNiro, vhs tape

The key ingredient in this modern-day version of Charles Dickens's classic is director Alfonso Cuarón. Expectations has those ingredients, great sense of time, place, and timing but adds modern music & sex appeal.
Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke as an adult, Jeremy James Kissner, age 10) is new version of Dickens's Pip. He's a child wise beyond his years, befriending an escaped convict (Robert De Niro) in the warm waters of Florida's Gulf Coast. Finn is also the plaything for Estella (Paltrow as an adult, Raquel Beaudene age 10), niece of the coast's richest & most eccentric lady, Ms. Dinsmoor (fun & flamboyant Anne Bancroft). The prudish Estella likes Finn but has been brought up to disdain men; she'll break hearts. As the object of Finn's desires, Estella unfortunately is one-dimensional character, yet what dimension! Clad in Donna Karan dresses & her long, sun-kissed hair, Paltrow is luminous. She & Hawke make a very sexy couple.
Mitch Glazer's script does better by Finn. He's a blue-collar worker with a gift for drawing. Following his Uncle Joe's honest ways, Finn grows up as a fisherman, thoughts of Estella & art drifting away in hard work. When a mysterious benefactor allows him to follow his dream, Finn finds himself in NY, preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime art exhibit--& in the arms of the engaged Estella.
Filled with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki's golden-drenched light, the film has an irresistible, wildly romantic look. Dinsmoor's place is certainly gothic, Estella and Finn's longing encounters. Songs by Tori Amos and the band Pulp--along with Patrick Doyle's silky score--create passionate scenes. It all ends far too swiftly with a seemingly tacked-on ending (reflecting the book, as it happens) but the film is splendid storytelling. It's a stylish, sweet valentine.
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