Applying the logic of the fatally tongue-tied, Hoppy devises a convoluted plan to win his secret beloved’s heart via the application of a made-up backwards Bedouin chant, a hundred incrementally larger Alfies and a customised fishing rod. When Mrs Silver acquires a tortoise called Alfie as a companion, she soon becomes worried that her new pet doesn’t appear to be growing. Although they talk daily over the railings, Hoppy is too shy to so much as ask Mrs Silver up for a cup of tea – and for five years they’ve been suspended in agonising proximity. Hoffman is Mr Hoppy, a reticent retiree who spends his days tending a bountiful balcony garden that overlooks his voluptuous widowed neighbour Mrs Silver ( Dench). Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench are pitch perfect in this delightful BBC adaptation of Dahl’s tortoise-themed tale of late-blooming romance.
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