Hugh Laurie
Mr. Watts
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Matilda writes "Pip" in the sand, and this simple act leads to terrible consequences when the "Redskins", an army sent to destroy the local rebels, suspect Pip to be a rebel leader and demand he be brought before them. They do not believe Mr Watts when he tells them Pip is a made up story character from a book.
- $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
Mister Pip. 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.
- 256 pp (paperback)
- Lloyd Jones
- 2006
- Fiction
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
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Mr Watts is the only white man left on the island after the blockade. He opens the school and introduces the children the 'Great Expectations.'. Matilda, the teenage narrator finds comfort in the story of a Victorian orphan when her own world is falling apart. The Redskins, an army sent to destroy the local rebels are getting closer.
