A curmudgeonly teacher finds a renewed zest for life after rescuing a penguin in this new film from 'The Full Monty' helmer ...

Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, an English teacher in 1970s Argentina, whose small new friend makes his class a hit.

In the movies, bonding with a cute, helpless animal is a surefire cure for cynicism, and that's exactly what happens to world ...

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin ...

I wasn’t wrong. That movie was called “My Penguin Friend” and starred Jean Reno and Adriana Barraza. It was released eight ...

One film per year in which the unexpected friendship of a penguin deeply affects a human being dealing with emotional pain?

Last year there was the sweet My Penguin Friend about the true story of DinDim, a Magellanic penguin caught in an oil spill who befriended a Brazilian fisherman and taught him valuable life lessons.

Directed by Academy Award nominee Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) and written by Academy Award nominee Jeff Pope (Philomena), ...

That's the case in The Penguin Lessons, a fact-based story taken from a memoir written by Tom Michell (played here by Steve ...

No objection here. That’s what we get with the British offering “The Penguin Lessons,” which swims into theaters roughly nine months after “My Penguin Friend,” from Brazil. They tell ...

Fortunately, and not surprisingly considering its title, The Penguin Lessons features both. Well, at least one penguin, who goes by the name Juan Salvador. But he’s more than enough. He’s ...