| Title |
The hippopotamus [DVD] |
| Production & Copyright Details |
Australia Distributed by Rialto Distribution, ©2017. |
| ©2016 |
| Physical Description |
1 DVD-video (approximately 89 minutes : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Content type |
two-dimensional moving image |
| Description |
DVD PAL |
| video file DVD video region 4 |
| Motion picture |
| Note |
In English. |
| Rialto Distribution : RIA213. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 2016. |
| "Based on the novel by Stephen Fry"--Container. |
| "It'll take a miracle to find the truth"--Container. |
| Credits Note |
Directed by John Jencks ; produced by Jay Taylor and Alexa Seligman ; written by Blanche McIntyre and Tom Hodgson. |
| Performer/Cast Note |
Roger Allam, Tommy Knight, Emily Berrington, Dean Ridge, Emma Curtis, Tim McInnerny, Geraldine Somerville, Lyne Reine, John Standing, Fiona Shaw, Matthew Modine. |
| Summary Note |
It is the story of a poet who is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles. The disgruntled, cantankerous, semi-famous poet Ted Wallace is hired to investigate strange doings at Lord and Lady Logan's country manor, Swafford Hall. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : MA 15+. |
| Requirements |
DVD video, Dolby digital 5.1, PAL, Region 4, anamorphic widescreen 2.40:1. |
| Subject-Personal Name |
Fry, Stephen, -- 1957-Film adaptations |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Miracles -- Drama |
| Curiosities and wonders -- Drama |
| Poets -- Drama |
| Subject - Genre |
Comedy films |
| Film adaptations |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Added Entry - Personal Name |
Jencks, John film director. |
| Seligman, Alexa film producer. |
| McIntyre, Blanche screenwriter. |
| Modine, Matthew actor. |
| Allam, Roger actor. |
| Knight, Tommy, 1994- actor. |
| Berrington, Emily actor. |
| Fry, Stephen, 1957- Hippopotamus. |
