HOGFATHER
Hogfather is a new British sci-fi/fantasy movie based on one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. One of its stars is Sir David Jason who - if anyone knows their classic BBC comedies - you will remember starred in Only Fools and Horses between 1981 and 2003 as Del Boy. It is a great Christmas movie for kids......
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Hogfather: This British movie sees Death (Voice of Death as he is known in Discworld) dressed as Santa Claus (Hogfather) delivering gifts to children at Christmas (Hogswatch)
Marc Warren as Teatime, Nigel Planer as Mr. Sideney, Stephen Marcus as Banjo, Craig Conway as Chickenwire, Peter Guinness as Medium Dave, Geoffrey Hutchings as Mr. Brown.
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Welcome to the Discworld, a parallel universe drifting through space perched on top of four elephants standing on the shell of a giant turtle, the Great A'Tuin. Here, reality is stretched to its limit, but it's still populated by humans, just like you and me. Almost.
In Discworld, it’s the night before Hogswatch. You know, that special night when the Hogfather delivers presents to the kiddies at the Hogswatch mid-winter festival in the mediaeval melting pot of Ankh-Morpork. What the Hogfather doesn't realize is that he's being watched by the Auditors—the Discworld’s grey-robed specters who audit not money but the entire universe and maintain the neat order of things. They think human beings are ridiculous; that they are ruining the perfect universe with their willful fantasies—fantasies that make humans, well... human. Now they’ve formulated a plan to destroy human belief so that there's not an atom of it left and the Discworld can finally be theirs.
They approach Lord Downey (David Warner, The Omen) the Head of The Assassins' Guild with a proposal: enlist the ruthless Mr. Teatime (Marc Warren, Hustle) to kill the Hogfather. A dire situation indeed when the Hogfather disappears, because if the presents aren’t delivered, all hope will be lost, and the sun will never rise again. While Death (voice of Ian Richardson, Bleak House), is summoned to fill the fat man’s shoes, a further plan to outwit the Auditors is underway. But who can stop them? Death’s adopted granddaughter and mild-mannered governess Susan Sto-Helit (Michelle Dockery, Fingersmith)? Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland, Asylum), Head of the Unseen University? Ridcully’s motley band of wizards? Hex, the thinking engine? Someone had better act fast, or the Auditors' terrible vision for a hopeless world will become a dismal reality and could spell out the end of humanity as we know it.
Weaving together pagan myths, druid worship, winter solstice rites, childhood bogeymen, fanciful dreams, and incredible nightmares, Hogfather is like nothing else ever imagined. By turns hilarious and horrifying, magical and menacing, wicked and witty, it’ll restore your faith in the power of invention.
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Characters
Sir David Jason (famous as Del Boy in the BBC's Only Fools and Horses) as Albert
Joss Ackland as Mustrum Ridcully
Marc Warren as Teatime
David Warner as Lord Downey
Sir Ian Richardson as Voice of Death
Michelle Dockery as Susan
Nigel Planer as Mr. Sideney
Stephen Marcus as Banjo
Ed Coleman as Ponder Stibbons
Craig Conway as Chickenwire
John Franklyn-Robbins as The Dean
Roger Frost as Bursar
Peter Guinness as Medium Dave
Richard Katz as Constable Visit
Sinead Matthews as Violet the Tooth Fairy
Maggie McCarthy as Ma Lillywhite
Rhodri Meilir as Bilious
Tim Plester as The Tooth Guard
Don Wetherhead as The Bogeyman
Arthur White as Ernie the cart driver
Nicolas Tennant as Corporal Nobbs
Nigel Pearson as the voice of the raven
Tony Robinson (famous as Baldrick in the BBC's Blackadder) as Vernon Crumley
Dominic Borrelli as Grotto Hogfather
Geoffrey Hutchings as Mr. Brown
The Shend as Hogfather
Hugo Altman as Gawain Gaiter
Madeleine Rakic-Platt as Twyla Gaiter
Trevor Jones as Modo
Timothy Bateson as Lecturer Recent Studies
John Boswall as Dean Infinite Studies
Terry Pratchett (the novelist himself) as The Toymaker
Fox Jackson-Keen as Young Albert
Bill Kaye as Assassin
Bridget Turner as Toothfairy/Bogeyman
From the imagination of best-selling novelist Terry Pratchett comes a deliriously twisted take on the holiday season. In the parallel universe of Discworld, it’s the night before Hogswatch, that special time when the Hogfather delivers presents to the kiddies at the mid-winter festival in the medieval melting pot of Ankh-Morpork. But when the Hogfather is kidnapped by a cadre of villains called the Auditors, the inspiring belief in Hogswatch could be lost forever. So could humanity, unless the Auditors’ evil plan is undone ASAP.
Sir Richardson as Voice of Death - dressed as Santa
Tim Plester as The Tooth Guard
www.rhifilms.com
Hogfather is a new British sci-fi/fantasy movie based on one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. One of its stars is Sir David Jason who - if anyone knows their classic BBC comedies - you will remember starred in Only Fools and Horses between 1981 and 2003 as Del Boy. It is a great Christmas movie for kids......
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Hogfather: This British movie sees Death (Voice of Death as he is known in Discworld) dressed as Santa Claus (Hogfather) delivering gifts to children at Christmas (Hogswatch)
Marc Warren as Teatime, Nigel Planer as Mr. Sideney, Stephen Marcus as Banjo, Craig Conway as Chickenwire, Peter Guinness as Medium Dave, Geoffrey Hutchings as Mr. Brown.
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Welcome to the Discworld, a parallel universe drifting through space perched on top of four elephants standing on the shell of a giant turtle, the Great A'Tuin. Here, reality is stretched to its limit, but it's still populated by humans, just like you and me. Almost.
In Discworld, it’s the night before Hogswatch. You know, that special night when the Hogfather delivers presents to the kiddies at the Hogswatch mid-winter festival in the mediaeval melting pot of Ankh-Morpork. What the Hogfather doesn't realize is that he's being watched by the Auditors—the Discworld’s grey-robed specters who audit not money but the entire universe and maintain the neat order of things. They think human beings are ridiculous; that they are ruining the perfect universe with their willful fantasies—fantasies that make humans, well... human. Now they’ve formulated a plan to destroy human belief so that there's not an atom of it left and the Discworld can finally be theirs.
They approach Lord Downey (David Warner, The Omen) the Head of The Assassins' Guild with a proposal: enlist the ruthless Mr. Teatime (Marc Warren, Hustle) to kill the Hogfather. A dire situation indeed when the Hogfather disappears, because if the presents aren’t delivered, all hope will be lost, and the sun will never rise again. While Death (voice of Ian Richardson, Bleak House), is summoned to fill the fat man’s shoes, a further plan to outwit the Auditors is underway. But who can stop them? Death’s adopted granddaughter and mild-mannered governess Susan Sto-Helit (Michelle Dockery, Fingersmith)? Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland, Asylum), Head of the Unseen University? Ridcully’s motley band of wizards? Hex, the thinking engine? Someone had better act fast, or the Auditors' terrible vision for a hopeless world will become a dismal reality and could spell out the end of humanity as we know it.
Weaving together pagan myths, druid worship, winter solstice rites, childhood bogeymen, fanciful dreams, and incredible nightmares, Hogfather is like nothing else ever imagined. By turns hilarious and horrifying, magical and menacing, wicked and witty, it’ll restore your faith in the power of invention.
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Characters
Sir David Jason (famous as Del Boy in the BBC's Only Fools and Horses) as Albert
Joss Ackland as Mustrum Ridcully
Marc Warren as Teatime
David Warner as Lord Downey
Sir Ian Richardson as Voice of Death
Michelle Dockery as Susan
Nigel Planer as Mr. Sideney
Stephen Marcus as Banjo
Ed Coleman as Ponder Stibbons
Craig Conway as Chickenwire
John Franklyn-Robbins as The Dean
Roger Frost as Bursar
Peter Guinness as Medium Dave
Richard Katz as Constable Visit
Sinead Matthews as Violet the Tooth Fairy
Maggie McCarthy as Ma Lillywhite
Rhodri Meilir as Bilious
Tim Plester as The Tooth Guard
Don Wetherhead as The Bogeyman
Arthur White as Ernie the cart driver
Nicolas Tennant as Corporal Nobbs
Nigel Pearson as the voice of the raven
Tony Robinson (famous as Baldrick in the BBC's Blackadder) as Vernon Crumley
Dominic Borrelli as Grotto Hogfather
Geoffrey Hutchings as Mr. Brown
The Shend as Hogfather
Hugo Altman as Gawain Gaiter
Madeleine Rakic-Platt as Twyla Gaiter
Trevor Jones as Modo
Timothy Bateson as Lecturer Recent Studies
John Boswall as Dean Infinite Studies
Terry Pratchett (the novelist himself) as The Toymaker
Fox Jackson-Keen as Young Albert
Bill Kaye as Assassin
Bridget Turner as Toothfairy/Bogeyman
From the imagination of best-selling novelist Terry Pratchett comes a deliriously twisted take on the holiday season. In the parallel universe of Discworld, it’s the night before Hogswatch, that special time when the Hogfather delivers presents to the kiddies at the mid-winter festival in the medieval melting pot of Ankh-Morpork. But when the Hogfather is kidnapped by a cadre of villains called the Auditors, the inspiring belief in Hogswatch could be lost forever. So could humanity, unless the Auditors’ evil plan is undone ASAP.
Sir Richardson as Voice of Death - dressed as Santa
Tim Plester as The Tooth Guard
www.rhifilms.com
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