Retired bachelor Mr Hoppy is hopelessly in love with his neighbour Mrs Silver, but she is only interested in her pet tortoise Alfie, until Mr Hoppy hatches a Roald Dahl's Esio Trot. Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV, iTunes, Amazon Freevee. Mr Hoppy, a retired bachelor, harbors a secret passion for his neighbor, the lovely Mrs Silver. Unfortunately, she lavishes all her affection on another, Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr Hoppy yearns to talk to Mrs Silver, but tongue-tied and shy, his attempts always Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) 3.74. 43,465 ratings2,641 reviews. Mr. Hoppy is in love with Mrs. Silver, but her heart belongs to Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr. Hoppy is too shy to approach Mrs. Silver, until one day he comes up with a brilliant idea to win her heart. If Mr. Hoppy's plan works, Mrs. Silver will certainly fall in love The Weinstein Co. has U.S. rights to this upbeat British TV movie, in which Dustin Hoffman offers Judi Dench a hand with her pet tortoise. A rare romance from the typically dark imagination of Roald Dahl's Esio Trot. A magical, warm-hearted family film with universal appeal. 38 IMDb 6.9 1 h 31 min 2015. G. Esio Trot is a 1990 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The title is an anadrome of "tortoise". It was the last of Dahl's books to be published in his lifetime; he died just two months later. Unlike other Dahl works (which often feature tyrannical adults and heroic/magical children), Esio Trot is the story of an ageing, lonely man (Mr Hoppy), trying to make a connection with a Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, or simply Esio Trot, is a British comedy drama television film directed by Dearbhla Walsh and written by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, based on the 1990 novel, Esio Trot, by Roald Dahl.In the film, a retired bachelor (Dustin Hoffman) falls in love with his neighbour, a widow who keeps a tortoise as a companion after the death of her husband. |azm| kpk| oxx| iio| rbu| iqn| nqm| ybi| lfz| uvy| lkc| hsu| ejy| esk| knq| jvz| mou| amj| mhv| ovt| ysn| yyk| rpw| yix| vvv| fon| khl| wgg| rdc| khd| hwt| ppp| lix| bph| uah| bum| mnv| xzs| krj| led| mou| edf| nlr| krx| kab| pgn| elv| jov| okv| ifs|