Mr. Pip

Mr. Pip

116 mins | Drama | Sept. 8, 2012

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.

Mr. Pip

116 mins | Drama | Sept. 8, 2012

Mr. Pip
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Olympus Pictures, Eyeworks Film, Daydream Productions
Original title Mr. Pip
Directors Andrew Adamson
Writers Lloyd Jones, Andrew Adamson

Cast

Hugh Laurie

as Mr. Watts

Xzannjah Matsi

as Matilda

Healesville Joel

as Dolores Naimo

Eka Darville

as Pip

Kerry Fox

as Mrs. Watts

Florence Korokoro

as Grace Watts

Tapiwa Soropa

as Startop

Marcellin Ampa'oi

as Joseph Naimo