‘The Penguin Lessons’ dodges schmaltz and finds genuine warmth—thanks in large part to Steve Coogan’s dry wit and one tenacious bird. Image by Andrea Resmini/Courtesy of Sony Pictures ...

Based on Tom Michell’s memoir of teaching at an upper-class boys’ school in 1976 Argentina, “Lessons” casts Steve Coogan as Tom who rescues a penguin from an oil spill. Despite ...

The movie begins with a familiar disclaimer that it’s based on true events. The actor Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, a teacher from southern England who is unhappily assigned to an upper-class ...

It was released eight months ago and, like this film, it’s based on a true story. While no one would confuse Reno with Steve Coogan, who plays the protagonist of “The Penguin Lessons,” their ...

When Tom (Steve Coogan) arrives in Buenos Aires to teach English to the privileged teenage boys at St. George’s College, it’s on the eve of the military coup in 1976, which he takes in stride ...

“The Penguin Lessons” (or as I like to call it, “Goodbye Fish ’n’ Chips”) stars Steve Coogan as Thomas Michell. He’s a grumpy gus who’s given up on life. He moves into St. George ...

The second is the comic talent of Steve Coogan playing the grouch in question ... not out of altruism but to impress a woman he’s met in a bar. The penguin declines to return to the sea and ...