Displaying 1 of 1 2014 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: Mr. Pip / directed by Andrew Adamson. Publisher, Date: [United States] : Freestyle Digital Media, [2014] Description: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video Summary: Mr. Watts is 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, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people she knows on the island. Target Audience Note: Rating: PG-13; for disturbing situations involving violence and threat, and for some mature thematic material and brief language. Subjects: Books and reading -- Drama. Teaching -- Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Drama. Other Author: Motion picture adaptation of (work): Jones, Lloyd, 1955- Mr. Pip. Adamson, Andrew, film director. Fox, Kerry, actor. Laurie, Hugh, 1959- actor. Darville, Eka, 1989- actor. Freestyle Digital Media, film distributor. Notes: Title from web page. Based on the novel by Lloyd Jones. Originally released as a motion picture in 2011. Kerry Fox, Hugh Laurie, Eka Darville, Xzannjah Matsi. DVD, widescreen 2.40:1 presentation; 5.1 Dolby digital. ISBN: 9786315685521 : DVD 6315685528 : DVD Publisher Number: FDM-DV-199 Other Number: 892121585 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 456649 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: DVD MOVIE Mr. Pip Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
