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. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Hugh Laurie, Xzannjah Matsi, Healesville Joel, Eka Darville, Kerry Fox, Florence Korokoro
Crew: Andrew Adamson (Director), Robin Scholes (Producer), Dean Vanech (Producer), Leslie Urdang (Producer), Lloyd Jones (Novel), Andrew Adamson (Screenplay)
Country: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, United States of America
Language: English
Studio: Olympus Pictures, Eyeworks Film, Daydream Productions, Focus Features
Runtime: 116 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 08, 2012
IMDb: 4.8
