Mister Pip (film)
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| Directed by | Andrew Adamson |
| Produced by |
Andrew Adamson Robin Scholes Leslie Urdang Dean Vanech |
| Written by | Andrew Adamson |
| Based on |
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones |
| Starring |
Hugh Laurie Xzannjah Healesville Joel Eka Darville Kerry Fox |
| Music by |
Tim Finn Harry Gregson-Williams |
| Cinematography | John Toon |
| Edited by | Sim Evan-Jones |
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| Distributed by |
Focus Features Freestyle Releasing |
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115 minutes |
| Country |
Papua New Guinea Australia New Zealand |
| Language |
English Tok Pisin |
| Box office | $1,714 |
Mr. Pip is a 2012 New Zealand film, set in Papua New Guinea, based on Lloyd Jones' novel Mister Pip. Andrew Adamson wrote the film adaption, which he also directed.Hugh Laurie played Mr. Watts.
In 1989, as a war rages on in the province of Bougainville—then called North Solomons—in Papua New Guinea, Mr. Watts (Hugh Laurie), the only white man left on the island after a blockade, re-opens the local school. He begins reading the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which transfixes a young girl named Matilda (Xzannjah). She finds comfort in the story of a Victorian orphan, Pip (Eka Darville), when her own world is falling apart. The "Redskins", an army sent to destroy the local rebels, are getting closer. Matilda writes "Pip" in the sand. This simple act leads to terrible consequences when the Redskins suspect Pip to be a rebel leader and demand he be brought before them.
Mr. Pip was filmed in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and in New Zealand: on 29 and 30 July 2011 it was filmed at Glendowie College, and at a flight training centre at Albert Street, Auckland; the historic precinct of Oamaru represented Dickens' London,Richard Pearse Airport at Timaru represented the Mount Isa Airport at Queensland, and Kingsland Railway Station in Auckland represented Gravesend Station in England.
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