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.

Keywords: island, school, papua-new-guinea,

Title: Mr. Pip
Imdb rate: 7.1
Imdb votes: 3,907
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand
Director: Andrew Adamson
Writers: Andrew Adamson (screenplay), Lloyd Jones (novel)
Actors:
Hugh Laurie
Xzannjah Matsi
Healesville Joel
Eka Darville

Awards: 6 wins & 8 nominations.