Mr. Pip 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.

Cast:

Hugh Laurie
Mr. Watts 

Xzannjah Matsi
Matilda 

Healesville Joel
Dolores Naimo 

Eka Darville
Pip 

Kerry Fox
Mrs. Watts 

Florence Korokoro
Grace Watts 

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