Mister Pip
- Release Date
- September 8, 2012
- Director
- Andrew Adamson
- Cast
- Hugh Laurie , Xzannjah Matsi , Healesville Joel , Eka Darville , Kerry Fox , Florence Korokoro
- Runtime
- 130
- Main Genre
- War
- Writers
- Andrew Adamson , Lloyd Jones
- Tagline
- When they needed hope, he gave them great expectations.
Summary
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.
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