A Feast at Midnight

A Feast at Midnight
Directed by Justin Hardy
Produced by Yoshi Nishio
Jonathan Hercock
Written by Justin Hardy
Yoshi Nishio
Starring Christopher Lee
Robert Hardy
Freddie Findlay
Aled Roberts
Julie Dreyfus
Music by David Hughes
John Murphy
Cinematography Tim Maurice-Jones
Edited by Michael Johns
Release date
  • 26 May 1995 (1995-05-26) (UK)
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

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."

References

  1. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/507490
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