Dir. Peter Cattaneo
2024 | 112 mins |
Steve Coogan, Björn Gustafsson, David Herrero

Showing Times

• Fri 25 Apr  2:00 PM + 5:40 PM
• Sat 26 Apr 5:00 PM
• Tue 29 Apr 2:00 PM + 8:00 PM
• Wed 30 Apr 2:00 PM + 5:40 PM
• Thu 1 May 2:00 PM + 8:30 PM

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 (Coogan) arrives to begin a teaching job at a prestigious English boarding school. Argentina is fraught with political violence, and despite the headmaster’s (Jonathan Pryce) 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.

BBFC Rating

Rated 12A -infrequent strong language, moderate sex references