• Film

Turtle Diary

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Time Out says

Jackson plays an unmarried lady who writes children's books under the pseudonym of Delia Swallow, and Kingsley a sales clerk living in limbo between a Bloomsbury bookshop and Fulham bedsitland: two lonely people drawn out of their shells by an elaborate heist to liberate the turtles from London Zoo. Absent, however, is the American-born Russell Hoban's quizzical perspective on his uptight Brits in his novel. What's left is not quite Delia Swallow for grown-ups; but the bland world this film inhabits is almost as quaint, complacent and parochial.

Release Details

  • Duration:96 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:John Irvin
  • Screenwriter:Harold Pinter
  • Cast:
    • Glenda Jackson
    • Ben Kingsley
    • Richard Johnson
    • Michael Gambon
    • Rosemary Leach
    • Eleanor Bron
    • Harriet Walter
    • Jeroen Krabbé
    • Nigel Hawthorne
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