2007 · fantasy · tv-movie · music
Hogfather
Directed by Vadim Jean3h 5m2007
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has vanished. Suddenly, Discworld's entire mythical system is under threat. The fate of this magical time rests in the hands of a very motley group: A band of wizards headed up by a mystical university president named Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland), a loyal manservant called Albert (David Jason), a level-headed governess called Susan Sto Heilt (Michelle Dockery), and her grandfather, who happens to be - Death (Marnix van den Broeke).
Our read: Hogfather (2007) reads as a cosy, steady, surreal fantasy · tv-movie · music entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle fantasy / tv-movie, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- cosy
- gentle
- surreal
- redemptive
- twisty
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