Steve Coogan as Tom Michell with his invaluable teaching aid) There’s a nightclub scene where Michell dances with an attractive woman that seems to be in the film solely for Coogan to show off his ...

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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, Pryce, and a projectile-pooping ...

And not only does the flightless bird at its centre melt the heart of a full-time cynic (logically played by Steve Coogan), but it inspires him to ... So, too, can he handle the character’s slimy ...

And not only does the flightless bird at its centre melt the heart of a full-time cynic (logically played by Steve Coogan), but it ... So, too, can he handle the character’s slimy desperation ...

‘Who would have thought that 50 years ago I would see a penguin flap its wings in oil, and now Steve Coogan is playing me in a film,’ Tom says, laughing. ‘I really think it fits this idea of ...

Steve Coogan gives quite a tender performance in The Penguin Lessons – it’s just a pity about the surroundings. He plays a teacher who has checked out, in this whimsical comedy-drama based on a memoir ...

“I ended up with no sex and a penguin.” So ­laments schoolteacher Tom Michell (Steve Coogan) when he ends up with avian rather than female companionship in the charming low-key comedy-drama ...