Our next PdOC Film Night will feature 'Great Expectations' (1946) at the Postdoc Centre
Please come along and get comfy with your own drinks and snacks. Guests are welcome. This event is entirely FREE and will likely finish with a visit to a nearby pub after the film. Capacity is 80 people.
Synopsis: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, is the story of a young man whose moral progress is shaped by two crucial childhood experiences: the traumatic encounter with Magwitch, an escaped convict, and his association with the eccentric Miss Havisham and her protegée Estella. Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean and starring John Mills, Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Marita Hunt and Valerie Hobson. It won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography) and was nominated for three others (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay).