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25 November 2007 (USA)
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It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened. | full synopsis
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Hogswatch it! An excellent bit of whimsy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| David Jason | ... | Albert | |
| Marc Warren | ... | Teatime | |
| Michelle Dockery | ... | Susan / Death of Rats | |
| David Warner | ... | Lord Downey | |
| Tony Robinson | ... | Vernon Crumley | |
| Nigel Planer | ... | Mr. Sideney | |
| Peter Guinness | ... | Medium Dave | |
| Stephen Marcus | ... | Banjo | |
| Craig Conway | ... | Chickenwire | |
| Rhodri Meilir | ... | Bilious | |
| Sinead Matthews | ... | Violet | |
| Ian Richardson | ... | Death / Narrator (voice) | |
| Neil Pearson | ... | The Raven (voice) | |
| Nicholas Tennant | ... | Corporal Nobbs | |
| Richard Katz | ... | Constable Visit |
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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (UK) (complete title)
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185 min (2 parts) (DVD version) | 189 min (2 parts)
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Death, voiced by Ian Richardson, utters the line "You might very well think that I'd already thought of that, but I couldn't possibly comment" - a reference to Richardson's catchphrase as Francis Urquhart in the political thriller "House of Cards" (1990) and it's sequels "To Play the King" (1993) and "The Final Cut" (1995).
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Crew or equipment visible: In the last scene, when Death is looking out of the window, reflections of modern street lights can be seen on the glass.
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Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
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Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
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Referenced in The Whole Hog: Making Terry Pratchett's 'Hogfather' (2006) (TV)
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A very silly festive fairytale for children of all ages, with a no-nonsense (in the primmest, properest sense of the word), kick-ass heroine, set in a world that looks remarkably like ours, in a thaumaturgical, Victorian Gothic kind of way, considering it's actually a disc balanced on some elephants, which are balanced on a turtle.
'Tis the night before Hogswatch - a solar festival not dissimilar from our Christmas. But where is the Hogfather to deliver the presents? What on earth is Death doing? Just how DO you subdue the monsters in the basement with a poker? Not to mention those in the Tooth Fairy's castle. Who has been naughty and who has been nice? And can Susan save the Hogfather before it's too late? Like all the best 'children's' stories, there are a slew of adult jokes - from Ian Richardson's asides about House of Cards, to the 'Ant hill Inside' ('Intel Inside') visual jokes on the, er, 'computer' - modernity is folded subtly into this wonderfully alternate world of yore.
Good performances from the famous faces, but it is Michelle Dockery as Susan who is the highly pragmatic, utterly bewitching star of the show.
There are some nice unpatronising ruminations on the nature of belief, myth, right and wrong for those who like a moral but not entirely Christian worldview.
So - who's up for a bit of magic and believing?