Movie Details

Title

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Overview

In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking holiday, he meets and marries the vivacious Kathie,who becomes his helpmate at the school but sadly pre-deceases him. Just before World War One insensitive new headmaster Ralston tries to edge Chipping out but the boys rally and Sir John Rivers, an old pupil of Chipping's and now head of the board of governors, invites him to stay and,when the war breaks out and Ralston joins up, Chipping becomes the new head.

Runtime

1 h 39 min

Release Date

1 January 2002

Actors

Martin Clunes, Victoria Hamilton, Conleth Hill, John Wood, Patrick Malahide, David Horovitch, Christopher Fulford, Harry Lloyd, James Casey, Tom Roberts, Rory Copus, James Byng, Joe Sowerbutts, Henry Cavill

Certification

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Genres

Family, Drama

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