Hugh Laurie
Mr. Watts
Search results
Mr. Pip is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Andrew Adamson and based on Lloyd Jones ' novel Mister Pip. [5] . Hugh Laurie played Mr. Watts. [6] Plot. In 1989, as the Bougainville Civil War rages on in Papua New Guinea, Mr. Watts, the only white man left on the island after a blockade, re-opens the local school.
- $977,855
- Andrew Adamson, Robin Scholes, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech
Oct 3, 2013 · Mr. Pip: Directed by Andrew Adamson. With Hugh Laurie, Xzannjah Matsi, Healesville Joel, Eka Darville. 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.
- (4.3K)
- Drama, War
- Andrew Adamson
- 2013-10-03
Nov 7, 2014 · Mr. Pip. While civil war rages on her island, a girl immerses herself in an imaginary world which fuses the Victorian London of "Great Expectations" with the environment and people she knows.
- (34)
- Andrew Adamson
- PG-13
- Hugh Laurie
Synopsis. In 1989, the world's largest open copper mine was in Bougaineville, a remote Island in the South Pacific. The mine sparked a conflict that consumed the entire nation of papa new guinea as Boungainville armed mercenaries revolt against the Papa New Guniea govt for selling their island to the mining company.
Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after the chief character in, and shaped by the plot of Charles Dickens ' novel Great Expectations. The novel was adapted into the film Mr. Pip in 2012. The novel is set against the backdrop of the civil war on Bougainville Island during the early 1990s.
