Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison."
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Benedict Cumberbatch
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
Dev Patel
Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston / Woods (archive footage)
Ben Kingsley
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
Richard Ayoade
Dr. Marshall / The Great Yogi / Various (archive footage)
Ralph Fiennes
Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
Rupert Friend
Narrator / Claud (archive footage)
Asa Jennings
Peter Watson (archive footage)
Eliel Ford
Stagehand (archive footage)
Truman Hanks
Stagehand (archive footage)
Benoît Herlin
Stagehand (archive footage)
Director
Wes Anderson
Screenplay
Wes Anderson
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures
CinemaSerf
September 23, 2026
Sometimes it's really easy to think on Roald Dahl as a children's storyteller - without always remembering that a lot of his stories had some really quite dark undertones. Here, the almost as imaginative Wes Anderson takes four of his shorter stories and works them into this loose compendium of features that takes Dahl's themes and immerses them in his vivid and artistically colourful world of sur...
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