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Movie Info

While civil war rages on her island, a girl immerses herself in an imaginary world which fuses the Victorian London of "Great Expectations" with the environment and people she knows.

Rating:

PG-13 (Some Mature Thematic Material|Disturbing Situations|Brief Language|Violence and Threat)
Genre:

drama, war
Original Language:

English
Director:

Andrew Adamson
Producer:

Andrew Adamson, Robin Scholes, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech
Writer:

Andrew Adamson
Release Date (Theaters):

Nov 7, 2014 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 5, 2016
Runtime:

1h 55m
Production Co:

Olympus Pictures

Cast & Crew

Hugh Laurie
Mr. Watts

Xzannjah Matsi
Matilda

Healesville Joel
Dolores

Eka Darville
Pip

Kerry Fox
Mrs. Watts

Florence Korokoro
Grace Watts

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Critics Consensus: Interstellar and Big Hero 6 are Certified Fresh

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Critic Reviews for Mr. Pip

All Critics (17) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (9)

It's a weak-tea imitation at best.

November 6, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4

John Hartl
Seattle Times
It's not a perfect film but it's not often you get one that sings literature's praises so eloquently, and that makes up for a lot.

November 3, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr. Pip doesn't start going seriously awry until its second half, when things get more eventful in ways that are compacted from the novel yet seem more disconnected.

November 3, 2014 | Full Review…

Dennis Harvey
Variety
Adamson mixes magical realism with hard-hitting historical drama in a way that feels both contrived and questionable, even if the filmmakers clearly have their hearts in the right place.

September 12, 2012 | Full Review…

Jordan Mintzer
Hollywood Reporter
Know what you're in for, because what you're in for is difficult.

September 11, 2012 | Full Review…

Linda Holmes
NPR
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Lloyd Jones, Mr. Pip is a movie coming from a good place, destined to take you to a bad place.

June 17, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
What [director Andrew Adamson] hasn't been able to do is pull off the story's central narrative shock in a way that preserves its unity rather than splitting it right down the middle.

January 3, 2018 | Full Review…

Lynden Barber
Limelight
... has difficulty finding cohesion among its divergent elements.

December 31, 2014 | Full Review…

Todd Jorgenson
Cinemalogue
It's ambitious, it's bloody and it's confusing.

November 3, 2014 | Full Review…

David D'Arcy
Screen International
I found this film hard to embrace. Mr Watts is a strange character who seems to create problems for himself when he doesn't need to.

November 26, 2013 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Matthew Toomey
ABC Radio Brisbane
Based on the novel by Lloyd Jones, the film is a visually lush, surprising, moving story that wears its unusual premise with a deftly blended mixture of lyricism and brutality.

November 8, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Jim Schembri
3AW
It will eventually find a home in classrooms, much like Great Expectations before it. However, I don't expect it to invigorate or inspire kids as Mr. Dickens' work regularly does.

November 3, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Simon Miraudo
Quickflix