A Feast at Midnight
| A Feast at Midnight | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Justin Hardy |
| Written by | Justin Hardy Yoshi Nishio |
| Produced by | Yoshi Nishio Jonathan Hercock |
| Starring | Christopher Lee Robert Hardy Freddie Findlay Aled Roberts Julie Dreyfus |
| Cinematography | Tim Maurice-Jones |
| Edited by | Michael Johns |
| Music by | David Hughes John Murphy |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
A Feast at Midnight is a 1995 British comedy family film directed by Justin Hardy and starring Christopher Lee, Freddie Findlay, Robert Hardy, Samuel West, Edward Fox and Julie Dreyfus. The film is notable for being the feature film debut of future Conservative politician, Michael Gove, as the chaplain.[1]
Plot
Dryden Park Preparatory boarding school welcomes a new student, Magnus (Freddie Findlay) whose father is convalescing in Paris. Magnus is immediately targeted by bullies and gets no support from the house master, Professor "Raptor" (Christopher Lee). Magnus seeks solace in letters from his father, with whom shared a love of good food, but the boarding school follows a strict diet, so Magnus organizes new his friends into a secret society who enjoy midnight feast. Magnus and other boys (also being bullied) go to the kitchen after hours and Magnus cooks and serves a Midnight feast made up of delicious snacks. As the Midnight feast Society grows under the nose of the housemaster, the bully boys continue to dislike Magnus and his friends and set out to cause trouble for the boys who are part of the Midnight Feast.
Cast
- Christopher Lee - V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow
- Robert Hardy - Headmaster
- Edward Fox - Father
- Freddie Findlay - Magnus
- Stuart Hawley - Bathurst
- Aled Roberts - Goff
- Andrew Lusher - Tava
- Samuel West - Chef
- Carol MacReady - Miss Plunder
- Lisa Faulkner - Miss Charlotte
- Julie Dreyfus - Mother
- Michael Gove - Chaplain
- Brian Cant - Mr. Hill
- Sebastian Armesto - Oberoi
- Mathew Blakiston [1] - Merriman
Reception
Empire said of the film: "Nothing about it suggests that it should have been made for the big screen, so modest is its scope."
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