The Hippopotamus (2017)

Watch The Hippopotamus (2017) online for free full movie and streaming film in English with HD quality. A country manor obscurity that’s actually a deliciously wicked comedy of manners, The Hippopotamus is a rollicking getting used to of the best-selling novel by Stephen Fry. It centers a propos a lapsed poet, unsuccessful the theater critic, redundant husband and hard-operational drunk, Ted Wallace (the mellifluously voiced Roger Allam in a rare starring role). Fired from his newspaper job, Ted leaps at the inadvertent to drown his sorrows at his antiquated-fashioned buddy’s country house, Swafford Hall. A series of spiritual healings have recently put the household in a tizzy. The purported miracle worker is his hosts’ young son, Ted’s godson, David (Tommy Knight). Lord and Lady Logan are set as regards sharing their boy’s “facility” later the world, blissfully unaware that his “laying regarding the order of the subject of of hands” trick involves, expertly, an defeat on the order of “laying.” At odds plus a shimmering party of fellow guests unaccompanied too ready to swallow anything they’on told, Ted sets out to prove the miracles are a hoax and save the teenage man from a lifetime of embarrassment.