'The Penguin Lessons' Trailer Is Just as Adorable as We All Expected
Given the state of... well, pretty much everything at the moment, we can probably all use a heartwarming movie that co-stars an adorable animal. If that's the case, mark your calendars for the release of The Penguin Lessons, a fan favorite from last year's Toronto International Film Festival slated to arrive in U.S. theaters this March. Based on a real-life story, the film follows a disillusioned Englishman who journeys to South America in the 1970s where he ends up making a very unexpected friend.
Popular comedian turned recent dramatic actor Steve Coogan (Brian & Maggie) stars as Tom, a school teacher who takes a job in Argentina in 1976. The position isn't as simple as he was initially led to believe, however— the country is on the brink of a military coup, and the schoolchildren he's meant to be teaching are completely uninterested in listening to him, let alone actually learning anything. But when he unexpectedly rescues a penguin trapped in an oil slick during a holiday trip to Uruguay, his life changes forever.
Forced to sneak the little creature back to Buenos Aires in order to save its life, the penguin becomes a combination of mascot, pet, and sentimental metaphor, as it catalyzes both Tom and his students to see their lives from a new perspective. The smallest person can change the course of the future, and all that.
