• The Penguin Lessons (12A)

  • Cinema

Price

  • £7.00 Full Price
  • £6.00 Concessions
  • £5.00 Student Members

Length

  • 112

Steve Coogan stars in this warm, witty comedy drama from The Full Monty and Military Wives director Peter Cattaneo, based on the bestselling memoir by Tom Michell.

Buenos Aires, 1976: Tom arrives to begin a teaching job at a prestigious English boarding school. Argentina is fraught with political violence, and despite the headmaster’s exhortations the school keep calm and carry on, it’s shut down by the eventual military coup d’état. 

Travelling to Uruguay, Tom encounters a penguin drenched in oil from a spill, and against his better judgment, rescues the bird. In doing so, he unlocks its undying loyalty, and after sneaking the flightless beast back to Argentina, begins a strange and beautiful friendship with the penguin that sees it become an unwitting agent of change for Tom and eventually, the whole school.

Director

Peter Cattaneo

Cast

Steve Coogan, Björn Gustafsson, David Herrero, Jonathan Pryce

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