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Mr. Pip (2012)
Directed by Andrew Adamson
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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.
Length 116 minutes
Actors
Hugh Laurie | Xzannjah Matsi | Healesville Joel | Eka Darville | Kerry Fox | Florence Korokoro | Tapiwa Soropa | Marcellin Ampa'oi
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/09/2015 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 5 stars |
| (Average) 5 stars |
Viewing Notes
via Netflix
An eccentric teacher in Papua New Guinea forms an unlikely bond with a 12-year-old girl over their love of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations. I watched this for Hugh Laurie initially, and while his character is a big driving force in the film based off the book of the same name, this is really kind of a re-telling of Great Expectations within the film itself and the story of the girl named Matilda, played by Xzannjah Matsi. This is really her story right along side the story of Mr. Watts, Hugh Laurie’s character. It’s both sad and captivating and emotionally powerful.
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