Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

TV Movie
2015
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench in Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015)

Comedy Family Romance

A retired bachelor has a thing for his neighbor, who only shows affection to her pet tortoise.A retired bachelor has a thing for his neighbor, who only shows affection to her pet tortoise.A retired bachelor has a thing for his neighbor, who only shows affection to her pet tortoise.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

Trivia
Seventy-six tortoises were used in the making of this movie.

Goofs
Mr Pringle twice says that the moment of his birth came about as a result of his father driving too quickly over a speed bump. This would make Pringle, at the time of the film's release (2015) no older than 32 years old, as speed bumps weren't introduced in the UK until 1987. Pringle appears to be of a similar age to Mrs. Silver (Judith Dench), and Mr. Hoppy (Dustin Hoffman), who were born in 1934 and 1937 respectively.

Connections
Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Dame Judi Dench/Dustin Hoffman/Jennifer Aniston/Jason Bateman/Olly Murs (2014)

Soundtracks
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
(uncredited)
Written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Louis Armstrong

User reviews41

Featured review

7/10

To fool or not to fool

I cant stand James Corden, and I am not to keen on Roald Dahl either. However, this movie was wonderful.

Based on a short story by Roald Dahl, this gentle comedy introduces us to Mr Hoppy (Dustin Hoffman) an elderly resident in a flat where he tends his wonderful plants on his balcony. But outside of his plants his life is empty and grey apart from his long held secret love for Mrs Silver (Judi Dench). Mrs Silver is a widow who lives in the flat downstairs and the shy botanist barely has the nerve to speak to her until she buys a pet. A tortoise named Alfie, that she dotes upon. When Mrs Silver confides in Mr Hoppy that she has concerns about Alfie, Mr Hoppy conceives a brilliantly overcomplicated plan to win her affections.