The Hippopotamus
A deliciously wicked comedy of manners adapted from Stephen Fry's bestselling novel.
Director: John Jencks
Cast includes: Fiona Shaw, Matthew Modine, Russell Tovey, Roger Allam
89 mins / 2017 / UK
Olivier Award winner Roger Allam heads a stellar cast as the cantankerous, whiskey-swilling protagonist in this brand-new adaptation of Stephen Fry's bestselling novel.
Ted Wallace, lapsed poet and disgraced theatre critic, is summoned to his friends Lord and Lady Logan's Norfolk manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracle healings. Ted tracks down the perpetrator of the phenomena, his fifteen-year-old godson David Logan, whose parents believe he has healing hands.
Unaware of David's disturbingly unorthodox methods, the Logans are now set on sharing their son's ‘gift’ with the world. With a poet's passion for the truth, Ted hurries to debunk the miracles and save a young man from a lifetime of embarrassment.
