![]() ![]() ![]() To make this work, Hoppy buys every tortoise in London, filling his flat with wandering shells, and winching them down to her balcony when her back is turned. His plan is to trigger her love for him by smuggling a bigger tortoise onto her balcony every day until she has one as huge as her heart demands. Spell Esio Trot backwards and, like My Hoppy tells Mrs Silver, the bedouin chant of backwards-English will make your tortoise grow bigger, faster. I’m ignoring that the Weinsteins co-produced this film and that a couple of the tortoises are named after them. And, let’s be clear, this is so nicely done you won’t even think of puking.Īnd……………. Hoppy adores her, but is so shy he cannot say. Hoffman plays Mr Hoppy, who pretty much lives for the plants on the balcony of his flat, utterly in love with Dench’s Mrs Silver who pretty much lives on the balcony below with her small tortoise. Old Jack comes to you a stunned man who has had his soul refreshed…įor two hours in the unexpectedly sparkly company of Judi Dench (sparkly and a bit dim) and Dustin Hoffman (pre #metoo, shy and adoring of Dench’s sparkly) in a colourful combination of Richard Curtis and Roald Dahl‘s heads is…well, so heartening an old man might skip or possibly sing. ![]()
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