Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
(2015)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 128 votes
Year: 2015
Runtime: 87 мин
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Дервла Уолш
Cast: Джеймс Корден, Дастин Хоффман, Джуди Денч, Сало Гарднер, Lara Rossi, Джимми Экинбола, Katie Lyons, Pixie Davies, Richard Cordery, Pik-Sen Lim
Plot
Retired bachelor Mr Hoppy is hopelessly in love with his neighbour Mrs Silver, but she is only interested in her pet tortoise Alfie - until Mr Hoppy hatches an audacious plan.
Lonely, ageing bachelor Mr Hoppy lives in a London flat and has two loves in his life - his balcony garden and Mrs Silver, the widow in the flat below. Sadly Mrs Silver is too fond of her tortoise Alfie to respond. Noting that Mrs Silver is perturbed that Alfie never seems to grow Mr Hoppy hatches a plan to show her how much he cares. This involves buying dozens of tortoises of increasing sizes to gradually substitute for Alfire, leading Mrs Silver to believe that a Bedouin chant - Esio Trot - is making her pet grow. However he is rumbled when one of the tortoises escapes. And, with another, brash resident vying for Mrs Silver's affections, will Mr Hoppy find happiness with the woman he loves?