The Irvine family has another project underway! A young "Pip" (Toby) comes across the fleeing convict "Magwitch" (Joseph Fiennes) during an evening out. Scared for his safety, he gives the man food and goes back home to his kind uncle "Joe" (Jason Flemyng) and his rather bossy wife (Sally Hawkins). A few years pass, and now Jeremy Irvine steps into the main role, being introduced to the lawyer "Jaggers" (Robbie Coltrane), who tells him that he’s suddenly become a person of means. The terms of this odd generosity require him to live in London as a gentleman and not ask where his money came from. He, along with the audience, makes certain guesses about the strange "Miss Havisham" (Helena Bonham Carter), but now he's in London, becoming friends with an old acquaintance "Herbert Pocket" (Olly Alexander) and enjoying a comfortable life. Still, he seems directionless and without real purpose until he returns home one night to reconnect with someone he used to clash with and receives some tough truths that completely shift his plans. It’s not my favorite Dickens novel, but this version does an acceptable job, leaning toward a pleasant afternoon drama instead of a sweeping cinematic presentation. The older Irvine is charming enough, and Alexander plays his friend "Pocket" with a certain playful quality, but I thought Fiennes went too far – it felt overly dramatic – and HBC doesn’t quite have the presence to portray “Havisham” in the way that, for example, Martita Hunt did, which was both imposing and sad. I often feel that color photography can be detrimental to stories like this. The problems of poverty and wealth that are central to so many of Dickens's tales always seem stronger when shown in stark black and white, and this one feels a little too polished. It’s fine for watching, but it’s not something I expect to recall later.

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