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Mr. Pip is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Andrew Adamson and based on Lloyd Jones' novel Mister Pip. Hugh Laurie played Mr. Watts.
- $977,855
- Andrew Adamson, Robin Scholes, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech
Oct 3, 2013 · 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.
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- 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.
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- Andrew Adamson
- PG-13
- Hugh Laurie
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. Jones had ...
- 256 pp (paperback)
- Lloyd Jones
- 2006
- Fiction
In 1989, as a war rages on in the province of Bougainville-then called North Solomons-in Papua New Guinea, Mr. Watts (Hugh Laurie), the only white man left on the island after a blockade, re-opens the local school.
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Based on the best-selling novel, Mr. Pip is a film by Andrew Adamson (Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek) and stars Hugh Laurie (“House M.D.”, Monsters Vs. Aliens) as Mr. Watts, the last...
