Mr. Pip

Set on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea during the civil war of the early 1990s, Mr. Pip centres on Mr. Watts, the only white man left in a village cut off by the fighting. He reopens the local school and teaches the children by reading aloud from his favourite novel, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. His pupils, among them a girl named Matilda, are drawn into the story of the orphan Pip and the world it opens up for them, while the war closes in around the village.

Hugh Laurie plays Mr. Watts, with Xzannjah Matsi as Matilda and Kerry Fox among the supporting cast. Andrew Adamson directed and wrote the screenplay, and the film was produced across Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the United States. It followed his work on the Shrek films and the first two Chronicles of Narnia adaptations, and appeared in the same year as Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away.

The film runs 116 minutes. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.2 out of 10 from 65 votes, which suggests a modest and limited response from viewers rather than a widely seen title.