Continuity: In most shots in the hotel room the houses you can see through the windows are quite far away, like across a wide street. Only in one shot, when Estella stands nude in front of the window, there is suddenly a window only a few meters away, through which one can see an Indian woman with her daughter, surprisingly unaware of the naked Estella.
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Mistakes
When the drunken Finn is shouting in front of Mrs. Dinsmoor's NY house he is holding a full liquor bottle in the left hand, then he empties it out, holding in his right hand, and finally he throws away a miraculously refilled bottle with his left hand again. See more...
Trivia
Of all the characters, only Estella's name appeared in both the film and the original novel. All other characters had different names in the loosely-adapted film version. See more...
Great Expectations (1998)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, starring Anne Bancroft, Chris Cooper, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Robert De Niro (add more)
Great Expectations mistakes
Plot hole: At the beginning of the film Lustig suddenly emerges from the water right in front of Finn. It's not possible that he could have been hiding in the shallow water without Finn noticing him.
Factual error: Hawke rides the subway twice during the film. Both times Hawke takes the "G" train. Unfortunately the G doesn't go through Manhattan where he is, it only goes through Brooklyn and Queens.
Great Expectations trivia
Of all the characters, only Estella's name appeared in both the film and the original novel. All other characters had different names in the loosely-adapted film version.