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TIFF Review: 'Mr. Pip' Features A Fine Hugh Laurie Performance, But Fails On Most Other Levels
From Andrew Adamson, the director who brought us the first two "Shrek" and "Narnia" movies, "Mr. Pip" is a rather feeble attempt at more serious subject matter than talking lions and animated ogres. A literary adaptation of a coming-of-age story, with links to Charles Dickens’ classic "Great Expecta...
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TIFF Capsule Review: 'Mr. Pip'
Readers of Lloyd Jones’ much-acclaimed 2006 novel may be the only viewers who have the patience to sit through this badly botched and largely incoherent adaptation by director Andrew Adamson, a veteran of the “Shrek” and “Narnia” franchises. Working from his own screenplay, Adamson even fails to provide much of an entry point for this based-on-true-events story, which takes place on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants’ resistance to mining exploitation led to civil war in Papua New Guinea in the early 1990s. The action centers on the bond between Matilda (Xzannjah), a 12-year-old islander, an...
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'Shrek' Director Andrew Adamson To Helm 'Mister Pip' With Hugh Laurie
Brit actor Hugh Laurie is best known on this side of the pond as the eternally cranky doctor on "House" who doesn't know a weirdo medical condition that he can't conquer. But the actor is now beginning to take strides into more prominent feature film roles. He's got the ensemble dramedy "The Oranges...
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