DVD
Mr. Pip [videorecording] / Olympus Pictures and New Zealand Film Commission, NZ On Air, and Daydream Productions in association with Eyeworks Film ; written and directed by Andrew Adamson.
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.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [United States] : Freestyle Digital Media, c2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Based on the novel by Lloyd Jones. For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc. Title from container. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Hugh Laurie, Kerry Fox, Eka Darville, Xzannjah Matsi. |
| Target Audience Note: | MPAA Rating: PG-13. |
| System Details Note: | DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | For private home use only. |
| Language Note: | Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | DVD Miste | 31681002437135 | DVD | Available | - |
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"Based on the best-selling novel, Mr. Pip is a film by Director Andrew Adamson (Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek) and stars Hugh Laurie (âHouseâ) as Mr. Watts, the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl (played by newcomer Xzannjah), is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickensâ character Pip is her friend. Matildaâs âPipâ world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickensâ Victorian London with the environment and people she knows on the island. This wildly imaginative hybrid place â visually stimulating and utterly compelling â is set alongside the filmâs unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. Matildaâs passion for storytelling brings terror to the village when Pipâs identity is misunderstood by the invading army. Ultimately, her courage and imagination must sustain her if she is to survive." - Baker & Taylor
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic "Great Expectations." - Millennium Media Services Inc
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.
