My Family and Other Animals (2005)
Actors:
Imelda Staunton (actress),
Rebecca Eaton (producer),
Omid Djalili (actor),
Mihalis Giannatos (actor),
Chris Langham (actor),
Mihalis Giannatos (actor),
Miranda Hart (actress),
Antonis Antoniou (actor),
Alexander Armstrong (actor),
Yorgos Kotanidis (actor),
Dimitris Kaberidis (actor),
Jason Watkins (actor),
Mark Caven (actor),
Simon Nye (writer),
Tom Goodman-Hill (actor),
Plot: Feeling the depressing effects of a gloomy English summer, the Durrell family decides to pack up and move to the Greek island of Corfu. Lead by their widowed mother, 13-year old future naturalist Gerald Durrell, his two older brothers and older sister move into a series of villas. Gerald indulges his passion for nature by filling his room with local fauna, while his brothers fill their time with writing or hunting and his sister sunbathes and flirts.
Keywords: 1930s, animal-watching, corfu, eccentricity, family-matriarch, grasshopper, greek-island, holiday, kissing, naturalist
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Quotes:
[first lines]::Larry Durrell: Why do we put up with this bloody climate? I mean, look at us: Gerry can't speak,::Gerald Durrell: Uh?::Larry Durrell: Lesley can't hear.::Leslie Durrell: What?::Larry Durrell: Margot's got a face like a plate of red porridge.::Margot Durrell: Shut up.::Larry Durrell: Mother's beginning to look like an Irish washerwoman.::Mother: I am not.::Larry Durrell: It's August. We need sunshine.::Mother: Yes, dear.::Larry Durrell: Now, I've got a friend lives in Greece - Corfu. Says it's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go?::Mother: I can't just go like that. We have a house here.::Larry Durrell: We'll sell up.::Mother: Don't be ridiculous, Lawrence. Gerry needs an education.::Gerald Durrell: No, I'll be fine.::Mother: We can't just up and leave; that would be madness.
Theodore Stephanides: Who was it who said, "If you can control your family, you've gone terribly wrong somewhere"?::Mother: Aristotle?::Theodore Stephanides: No.::Mother: Was it me?::Theodore Stephanides: Yes.
Mother: What a rude man!::Margot Durrell: What? [Mother passes her the page] [reading] "Description passengers: one travelling circus and staff!"::Mother: Odd thing to write. Some people really are peculiar.
[last lines]::Narrator: Back in England, Mother insisted I went to school, despite my protestation that I liked being half-educated. You were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.