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‘The Penguin Lessons’ Review: Steve Coogan Makes a Feathered Friend in Sweet British Buddy Dramedy
A curmudgeonly teacher finds a renewed zest for life after rescuing a penguin in this new film from 'The Full Monty' helmer Peter Cattaneo.
Steve Coogan on his very unusual new comedy: ‘The penguin takes the edge off the fascism’
INTERVIEW: In ‘The Penguin Lessons’, the man behind Alan Partridge plays a school teacher in military-occupied Argentina who ...
Steve Coogan isn’t earnest enough for the dire political comedy The Penguin Lessons
Finally a film that asks ‘could an adorable flightless bird convince Alan Partridge to stand up to Argentina’s military ...
Steve Coogan explains what it was like working with a penguin in The Penguin Lessons
As the title suggests, Coogan spends much of the runtime of The Penguin Lessons starring alongside a real-life penguin, who ...
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Five minutes with Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce: Dating disasters, animal sidekicks and their new film, The Penguin Lessons
Steve Coogan and Sir Jonathan Pryce are basically the Mario and Luigi of British acting royalty. The two have held some of ...
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Steve Coogan on his very unusual new comedy: ‘The penguin takes the edge off the fascism’
Steve Coogan tells me this with a sort of ... is watching wide-eyed as his life story is turned into an off-beat drama-comedy starring Coogan, Pryce, and a projectile-pooping Magellanic penguin ...
Steve Coogan felt like he was being 'heckled' by animal co-star in The Penguin Lessons
In the upcoming comedy-drama, the British actor plays Tom Michell, a disillusioned teacher who worked at an Argentinian ...
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Steve Coogan on his very unusual new comedy: ‘The penguin takes the edge off the fascism’
He wrote a memoir about his avian pal a decade ago and now, at 73, is watching wide-eyed as his life story is turned into an off-beat drama-comedy starring Coogan ... he was an English teacher ...
The schoolteacher and the penguin, with a side of politics
Yet the real society here, the one that brings warmth and compassion to the film, is Michell’s growing friendship with his ...