Bougainville- New Guinea, circa 1989. The island province has been blockaded by the government, with the natives being left to fend for themselves. Enter Mr. Watts (Hugh Laurie); an expatriate Brit, who’s recently come to Bougainville with his sickly native wife, Grace. He offers to reopen the local school, and begins teaching the children- transfixing them with animated readings from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectation”. His readings have a profound effect on a local girl, Mathilda (Xzannjah), who imagines the character Pip (Eka Darville) as a local boy, whose story parallels her own. - See more at: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-mr-pip-tiff-2012#sthash.Qap8WSwM.dpuf
As a bitter civil war tears apart the lives of his students an isolated English school teacher (House star Hugh Laurie) in Bougainville finds a unique way to inculcate hope; 14-year-old Matilda is enthralled by his Dickens-infused disaster survival lessons. The life during wartime tale was directed by Kiwi Andrew Adamson (Shrek; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) and adapted from the 2006 Booker Prize short-listed Lloyd Jones novel. Adamson spent time in Papua New Guniea as a teenage son to missionary parents. Mr Pip is due in NZ theatres in Oct 2013.
Bougainville- New Guinea, circa 1989. The island province has been blockaded by the government, with the natives being left to fend for themselves. Enter Mr. Watts (Hugh Laurie); an expatriate Brit, who’s recently come to Bougainville with his sickly native wife, Grace. He offers to reopen the local school, and begins teaching the children- transfixing them with animated readings from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectation”. His readings have a profound effect on a local girl, Mathilda (Xzannjah), who imagines the character Pip (Eka Darville) as a local boy, whose story parallels her own. - See more at: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-mr-pip-tiff-2012#sthash.Qap8WSwM.dpuf
Bougainville- New Guinea, circa 1989. The island province has been blockaded by the government, with the natives being left to fend for themselves. Enter Mr. Watts (Hugh Laurie); an expatriate Brit, who’s recently come to Bougainville with his sickly native wife, Grace. He offers to reopen the local school, and begins teaching the children- transfixing them with animated readings from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectation”. His readings have a profound effect on a local girl, Mathilda (Xzannjah), who imagines the character Pip (Eka Darville) as a local boy, whose story parallels her own. - See more at: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-mr-pip-tiff-2012#sthash.Qap8WSwM.dpuf
Bougainville- New Guinea, circa 1989. The island province has been blockaded by the government, with the natives being left to fend for themselves. Enter Mr. Watts (Hugh Laurie); an expatriate Brit, who’s recently come to Bougainville with his sickly native wife, Grace. He offers to reopen the local school, and begins teaching the children- transfixing them with animated readings from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectation”. His readings have a profound effect on a local girl, Mathilda (Xzannjah), who imagines the character Pip (Eka Darville) as a local boy, whose story parallels her own. - See more at: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-mr-pip-tiff-2012#sthash.Qap8WSwM.dpuf
FILMGUIDE
Fri, August 30, 2013 
