Mr. Pip
The lone white guy in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, is reading Charles Dickens' Great Expectations to an impressionable youngster at school during the midst of the country's ongoing civil war. Bougainville was torn apart in 1991 by a conflict sparked by a copper mine in the South Pacific. Children in fourteen-year-old Matildas little village are given an escape from reality by "Popeye" (Hugh Laurie) by reading Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. The dangers of fiction, however, are real on a war-torn island
Released: 2012-09-08
Genre:
Drama
Duration: 116
min