Mr. Pip

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.Mr. Pip featuring Hugh Laurie and Xzannjah Matsi is streaming with subscription on Prime Video, free on Tubi TV, available for rent or purchase on iTunes, and 5 others. It's a drama movie with a less than average Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 44% and a better than average IMDb audience rating of 7.2 (3,378 votes).