A Feast at Midnight ** (1994, Freddie Findlay, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 10,622
Director Justin Hardy’s 1994 British family comedy drama film A Feast at Midnight is a pleasant and well-meaning but rather weak, none too amusing children’s comedy about a lonely 10-year-old boy called Magnus (Freddie Findlay) at a stuffy, forbidding English boarding school, who rebels against the humiliating system by starting a secret gourmet society cooking up delicacies.
Christopher Lee enjoys himself as the Latin teacher, V E Longfellow, aka Raptor, and so does Robert Hardy as the headmaster, with other useful turns from Edward Fox and Julie Dreyfus as Father and Mother, Samuel West as Chef, Lisa Faulkner as Miss Charlotte and Carol MacReady as Miss Plunder.
The original screenplay is by Justin Hardy and Yoshi Nishio.
It is Freddie Findlay’s only film.
It is the feature film debut of future Conservative politician Michael Gove, as the chaplain.
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