Mr. Pip
Where: |
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea |
When: |
The 1990s |
When they needed hope, he gave them great expectations. — 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.
Released in 2012 — 116 minutes
Genre: |
Drama |
Language: |
English |