Mr. Pip (2012)
When they needed hope, he gave them great expectations.
Starring Hugh Laurie, Xzannjah Matsi, Healesville Joel
Directed by Andrew Adamson
As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.
Runtime: 116 min.
Rating: 6.0
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: Australia,New Zealand,Papua New Guinea,United States of America
Genres: Drama
Keywords: island,school,papua new guinea
Cast
Mr. Watts
Matilda
Dolores Naimo
Pip
Mrs. Watts
Grace Watts
Startop
Joseph Naimo