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Mr. Pip was filmed in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, and in New Zealand: on 29 and 30 July 2011 it was filmed at Glendowie College, and at a flight training centre at Albert Street, Auckland; the historic precinct of Oamaru represented Dickens' London, [7] Richard Pearse Airport at Timaru represented the Mount Isa Airport at Queensland, [8 ...
Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after the chief character in, and shaped by the plot of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations. The novel was adapted into the film Mr. Pip in 2012. The novel is set against the backdrop of the civil war on Bougainville Island during the early 1990s. Jones had ...
The film was respectively nominated two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst New Actor and Worst Supporting Actress for Tami Erin and Eileen Brennan, but lost to Ronald McDonald and Kristy McNichol, respectively. [25] It was also nominated for Worst Picture at the 1988 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards but lost to Caddyshack II. [26]
Stanislav Holý (25 February 1943 – 14 August 1998) was a Czech graphic artist, caricaturist, and a designer of animated films. [1]He studied at the Applied Arts Academy in Prague.
Ioan Gruffudd (Welsh: [ˈjɔan ˈɡrɪfɪð] ⓘ; / ˈ j oʊ ɑː n ˈ ɡ r ɪ f ɪ θ /; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh actor.He is known for his roles in film and television series in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
In 2015 he returned to TV work with a recurring role on Veep as Tom James, a role written specifically for him after showrunner Armando Iannucci heard he was a fan of the show. [39] Laurie continued to recur on the show until the final season in 2019. The same year he played the villain David Nix in Brad Bird's 2015 film Tomorrowland. [40] [41]
Robbie Coltrane as Mr Jaggers, a lawyer responsible for handling Pip's money. Great Expectations was Coltrane's first Dickens-related role. He had been offered the role of Mr. Micawber in an adaptation of David Copperfield some years previously, but was unable to take it. Coltrane described Jaggers as a "heartless bastard", and was pleased to ...
Pip assumes the benefactor is Miss Havisham and accepts. In London, Pip meets his roommate Mr. Pocket who tells the story of Miss Havisham: she got engaged but was left at the altar, causing her to stop all the clocks in the house and never leave the house again. Pip spends the rest of his time in London learning how to be a gentleman.