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The Penguin Lessons

The Penguin Lessons

7.1/ 10

TMDB Rating

144

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2025

Release Year

111 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

In 1976, as Argentina descends into violence and chaos, a world-weary English teacher regains his compassion for others thanks to an unlikely friendship with a penguin.

Keywords

1970s
american football coach
sarcasm
penguin
based on true story
argentina
based on memoir or autobiography
school teacher
dramedy
animal human friendship

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Reviews(3)

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Brent Marchant

@Brent_Marchant

March 31, 2025

8
8/10

There’s an old expression in show business that advises entertainers not to work with children or animals because they’ll upstage them every time. But, while that’s often true, it’s not always the case, as seen in the latest feature offering from director Peter Cattaneo. This charming comedy-drama t

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r96sk

r96sk

April 18, 2025

8
8/10

<em>'The Penguin Lessons'</em> is hearty viewing. Steve Coogan plus penguin is a recipe for success so the films delivers in that respect, I think any movie with a cute little flipper is going to be impossible to dislike. Everything with the penguin is sweet, much with Coogan is funny. It's a rea

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

May 10, 2025

7
7/10

“Tom” (Steve Coogan) is an English teacher who has worked his way around South America becoming a little more cyclical than your average bear when he arrives at a posh school outside Buenos Aires that teaches the sons of the great and the good. It’s run by the ostensibly rather foppish “Timbuck” (Si

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