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Description

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Certificate: PG

Year of release: 2014

Length: 105 mins

Genre: Family adventure

Director and co-writer Paul King's briskly paced partially-animated take on the furry hero of Michael Bond's children's books.

Beginning with a Pathé newsreel-style preface in which a very English explorer in Peru introduces a family of bears to the delights of marmalade and the dignity of British manners, the film picks up the story some years later when tragedy causes a young bear to flee to London. Named Paddington after the station where he's discovered by the Brown family - headed by reluctant Henry and his more adventurous wife Mary - the bear sets about clumsily integrating with the family, much to the delight of the Browns' children. But it's not all fun and slapstick - ruthless taxidermist Millicent bears a grudge, and sees Paddington as museum material…

The film also features, in voice or in person, Julie Walters, Peter Capaldi, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Matt Lucas and Jim Broadbent.

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