Turtle Diary (1985)

Directors

John Irvin

Cast

Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson, Michael Gambon, Rosemary Leach, Eleanor Bron, Jeroen Krabbé, Harriet Walter, Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Aldridge

The story

Two lonely Londoners – Neaera Duncan, a children's author (Glenda Jackson), and William Snow, a bookstore assistant (Ben Kingsley) – find common ground when visiting the sea turtles at London Zoo. Independently, each perceives that the turtles are unnaturally confined, and they hatch a plan with the assistance of zookeeper George Fairbairn (Michael Gambon) to smuggle them out and release them into the sea. Their release of the turtles is a metaphor for their escape from their inhibitions.

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