Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Hugh LaurieMr. Watts
- Xzannjah MatsiMatilda
- Healesville JoelDolores Naimo
- Eka DarvillePip
- Kerry FoxMrs. Watts
- Florence KorokoroGrace Watts
- Tapiwa SoropaStartop
- Marcellin Ampa'oiJoseph Naimo
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