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Cheddon & West Monkton Film Club - The Penguin Lessons (2024)

26 September 2025

Director: Peter Cattaneo, with Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce
Runtime: 111 mins

Disillusioned teacher Tom Michell (Steve Coogan) gets a job teaching English and Rugby in a school for rich kids in Buenos Aires. It’s 1976 and Argentina is controlled by a military dictatorship, but Tom is more interested in spending time on the beach than in either his pupils or the political situation. During a weekend trip to Uruguay he rescues an orphaned penguin and smuggles it back into the school, little suspecting that this is the beginning of a personal and political awakening.

Watch the trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdjEXNX1nSA

Doors Open - 6.30pm for refreshments

Trailer - 7.00pm

Main Film - 7.20pm approx

Tickets £6.00 at door  (Card machine available)

Wine available at £2 for a 125ml glass.

Free tea, coffee and Biscuits will also be available.