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

6/10

A slow-paced tale

While the whole plot could seem rather weak, this movie is a perfect example of a modern storytelling done with mastery. The pace of the movie is voluntarily slow, the actors are excellent, the breaking of the fourth wall is used with wit by a character who at first seems to be there only to tell us the story, and there are some surprising events that are typical of an action movie.