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0024543001348. Pre-Owned: Good condition. DVD. Run time: 111 mins. Language: English. Alfonso Cuaron (The Little Princess) directed this Mitch Glazer screenplay a modernization of the 1860-61 classic by Charles Dickens. Some situations in the film are presented as memories -- the way the central figure Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke) recalls events many years later. At a Florida fishing village eight-year-old orphan Finn Bell (Jeremy James Kissner) talented at art is left in the care of his sister and her husband Joe (Chris Cooper). One day Finn helps a chained escaped convict who appears in the surf. On other days he visits Paradiso Perduto where he plays with young Estella (Raquel Beaudene) niece of the mansion s colorful flamboyant and extremely wealthy owner Ms. Dinsmoor (Anne Bancroft) who parallels the novel s tragic Miss Havisham a woman jilted at the altar and left emotionally scarred and mentally imbalanced. As Ms. Dinsmoor watches Finn draw a portrait of Estella she plots to mold