#mike newell
“Seek and ye shall find” indeed! It is I that shall pray for you, Miss Stimple. But from a far safer distance.
The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), dir. Mike Newell
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(034) → Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
director: Mike Newell
starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin
rated: PG-13
synopsis: A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 50’s Wellesley girls to question their traditional societal roles.
tomatometer: 35%; 58% (rotten.)
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK Quad)
Director: Mike Newell
Writer: David Nicholls
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and Jason Flemyng
Synopsis:
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations between his terrifying experience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and his humiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham’s beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he is elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language, according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.
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