Paddington (film)

Paddington is a British/France 2014 live-action animated comedy film about a young Peruvian bear who travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven. Its 2017 sequel, Paddington 2, was released 3 years later.
 * Directed and written by Paul King.

'''Please look after this bear. Thank you.'''taglines

Dialogue

 * Lucy: Stay out of sight until London.
 * Paddington: But...aren't you coming?
 * Lucy: I am too old and too tired to go any further.
 * Paddington: Oh. Then what will you do?
 * Lucy: Oh, don't you worry about me. I will be safe in the Home for Retired Bears. [before Paddington could speak, she raises her hand] But it is not yet time for you to retire. You must find a new home...in London.
 * Paddington: But... But I don't know anyone there. What if they don't even like bears?
 * Lucy: You know, there was once a war in the explorer's country. Thousands of children were sent away for safety, [puts a label around Paddington's neck] left at railway stations with labels around their necks, and unknown families took them in and loved them like their own. They will not have forgotten how to treat a stranger. [puts a red hat on his head] Now take care, my darling. Remember your manners. [hears a group of people] And keep safe. [kisses Paddington, then walks away]


 * Mrs. Bird: Batten down the hatches, young'un! There'll be a storm tonight.
 * Mary: Well, the radio said it was clearing up.
 * Mrs. Bird: [scoffs] "Radio"? I feel it in my knees. My knees never lie.
 * Jonathan: [runs in the room] Guess what, Mrs. Bird? We found a bear!
 * Mrs. Bird: Uh-huh.
 * Jonathan: A real bear from Peru!
 * Mrs. Bird: Oh, that's nice, dear.
 * Jonathan: [confused] You don't seem very surprised.
 * Mrs. Bird: Oh, I was surprised when they came up with the microwave oven. [glares at a microwave oven] And I still don't trust you.


 * Henry: [referring to Paddington] That animal is going straight to the authorities!
 * Mary: But what about the explorer?
 * Henry: There is no explorer! I'm not putting this family in danger while you go on some wild goose chase. First thing tomorrow, that bear is out of here!


 * Mary: [opens the hatch] Can't you sleep? [Paddington shakes his head, as if to say "no"] Me neither. [enters the attic]
 * Paddington: I do wish we could've found the explorer.
 * Mary: I know, Paddington. But I've been looking everywhere and I still can't find any mention of an English expedition in Peru.
 * Paddington: But there really was an explorer, Mrs. Brown. [points to the hat he's wearing] He gave my uncle this hat.
 * Mary: What, that was the explorer's hat?
 * Paddington: Mm-hmm. Why?
 * Mary: [referring to Mr. Gruber, gasps] I've got a friend who runs an antique shop in the Portobello Road. He knows all about old things like your hat.
 * Paddington: Oh?
 * Mary: It's just possible he could help us find your explorer.
 * Paddington: Oh, that would be wonderful. But didn't Mr. Brown say...?
 * Mary: [interrupts Paddington] Don't you worry about Mr. Brown. As far as he's concerned, we're going to the authorities. But I'm not standing by while there's a chance to find you a proper home. Now make sure you get some sleep, okay? [walks out of the attic through the hatch she came in] Night-night.


 * Mr. Curry: [from his window] Heck of a racket coming from your way last night, Brown.
 * Henry: [turns around] Oh, hello, Mr. Curry. I'm sorry if we disturbed you.
 * Paddington: Good morning.
 * Mr. Curry: [looks at Paddington] I don't believe I've had the pleasure.
 * Mary: Mr. Curry, this is Paddington.
 * Jonathan: He's a bear!
 * Mr. Curry: I can see that. You must be a long way from home.
 * Paddington: I'm from Darkest Peru.
 * Mr. Curry: Ah.
 * Henry: Don't worry, Mr. Curry, he's going. [the Browns walk away]
 * Mr. Curry: Just as well. Don't wanna be kept by any of your loud jungle music. [closes his window]


 * Mr. Gruber: [sees Mary] Ah, Mrs. Brown, come in!
 * Paddington: You must be Mr. Gruber.
 * Mr. Gruber: And you must be the young gentleman whose hat sounds so fascinating. Welcome. You're just in time for elevenses.


 * Mr. Gruber: Every morning it arrives at 11:00 bringing salvation. [puts nuts in his coffee] Just like a train that I took many years ago.
 * Paddington: Really? [eats a treat]
 * Mr. Gruber: Oh yes. You see, there was a lot of trouble in my country. So my parents sent me all the way across Europe, [a vision of Mr. Gruber's pats appears] when I was not much older than you are now.
 * Paddington: Was it hard to find a home?
 * Mr. Gruber: I had a great aunt who once took me in. [a distant voice can be heard] But I soon learned a home is more than a roof over your head. [steam, the vision disappears] My body had traveled very fast. But my heart, she took a little longer to arrive. But now I should like to take a look at your hat.
 * Paddington: Oh, thank you. [he gives Mr. Gruber his hat]
 * Mr. Gruber: Unusual color. But it is hard to say how much of that is original, and how much... [pulls out a sandwich] Marmalade?
 * Paddington: My uncle always kept a marmalade sandwich in his hat, in case of emergency.
 * Mr. Gruber: [laughs] You're pulling my legs off! What a splendid idea!


 * [the crowd cheers for Paddington as he enters the building]
 * Man in Crowd: The bear of the moment!
 * Paddington: Oh, really? I just did what any bear would do.
 * Mr. Gruber: I can't thank you enough! [referring to Andre] That scoundrel has been pocket-picketing people around here for weeks!
 * Mary: He was extraordinary.
 * Mr. Gruber: And it gave me a chance to look at his hat. [scrubs off the dust] You see, this is no ordinary hat.
 * Paddington: No?
 * Mr. Gruber: No! These markings mean that it was made for a member of the Geographer's Guild.
 * Paddington: What's that?
 * Mr. Gruber: It is a very old explorer's club.
 * Paddington: Oh.
 * Mr. Gruber: Go and see them in the morning, and if luck has been smiling on your face, they should be able to tell you who they made it for.


 * Judy: Hey, Paddington. Have you seen the paper? [gives Paddington the newspaper]
 * Paddington: Gosh.
 * Jonathan: You've already been in London a day, and you're already famous.
 * Paddington: Oh.
 * Judy: I'm sorry if I wasn't very nice before. It's just...it's a new school and I didn't want everyone to think I was weird.
 * Paddington: Oh, I understand, Judy. It's not easy being somewhere new.
 * Judy: No, it isn't.
 * Henry: [offscreen, faintly] He put earwax on my toothbrush! [Judy laughs]
 * Paddington: Things can be very different from how you imagined.
 * Jonathan: Oh, don't let him bother you. Dad's always been boring and annoying.
 * Mrs. Bird: Oh, don't know 'bout that. More to your father than meets the eye.
 * Jonathan: Like what?
 * Mrs. Bird: Well, when I first met him, he was a very different man.
 * [flashback, "Born to be Wild" plays in the background]
 * Mary: WHOOOOOO!!!!! Ya-aay!!! Woo-hoo!!!
 * Henry: That's my girl! [he and Mary stop at the hospital]
 * Mary: Not gonna let this change us, right?
 * Henry: No way, baby! [they high-5 each other]
 * Mary: We're having a baby! [they run in the hospital, then the flashback fast-forwards]
 * Mrs. Bird: [during the flashback] But becoming a father does strange things to a man.
 * Henry: [he and Mary leave the hospital] Could you be careful? There's a baby here. Hey, step back, there's a baby coming through. Could you keep those flowers away, please? She's too young for pollen.
 * Mary: [confused] Where's the bike, darling?
 * Henry: This is our new car.
 * Mary: What? It's very beige, isn't it?
 * Henry: It's a calm and neutral color. Could you get in?
 * Mrs. Bird: [the flashback ends] The point is, your father loves you very much. Give him a chance. [picks up a laundry basket] He might just surprise you. [walks away]
 * Judy: Maybe you and Dad just need a fresh start.
 * Paddington: Hmm. I suppose I didn't make the best first impression.
 * Judy: Don't take this the wrong way, but...why don't we try to make you to look a bit more presentable?
 * Paddington: Hang on a minute. You're not talking about...?


 * Paddington: [as he's being blown by blow dryers] Wind! Hot wind! 2 hot winds! I don't like it! [the blowing stops, offscreen] Well, I hope I don't look weird after all that. [onscreen, his fur stands up]
 * Judy: Too much?
 * Jonathan: Too much. [laughs]
 * Paddington: "Too much"? Then get me a brush, will you.
 * Mrs. Bird: Ah, there it is. [pulls out a duffle coat]
 * Jonathan: It's my old duffle coat.
 * Judy: Actually, it was mine first.
 * Henry: Well, long before that, it was mine.
 * Paddington: Oh, was it, Mr. Brown?
 * Judy: [faintly] Really?
 * Mary: He wore it on his first day of school.
 * Paddington: [admiring the coat he's wearing] It's lovely. Wooden buttons for ease of paw. And these 2 sandwich compartments are an excellent idea.
 * Henry: I must say it suits you very well.
 * Paddington: I never thought I'd like a human coat, but...
 * Mary: [offscreen] You look like one of the family.
 * Jonathan: You're not going to send Paddington to the authorities, are you?
 * Judy: You will try the Geographer's Guild?
 * Henry: [pause] Yes, alright. We'll see if they know anything. [Jonathan hugs him] But if it's a dead end...
 * Mary: I'm sure it won't be.
 * Paddington: Thank you very much, Mr. Brown. [he smiles, Henry smiles back]


 * Henry: Paddington? Paddington? [the elevator door opens]
 * Paddington: Psst! Mr. Brown. In here.
 * Henry: What are you doing?
 * Paddington: We need to get into that archive. [Henry sighs] Hmm...
 * Henry: [enters the elevator] Paddington, please don't take this the wrong way, but are you certain there was an explorer? [Paddington glares at him] You didn't just find the hat and make up some...? [he notices Paddington] What? Why are you looking at me like that? Is it me or is it hot in here? Why do I feel so...
 * Paddington: Uncomfortable?
 * Henry: Hmm.
 * Paddington: Flushed?
 * Henry: Hmm.
 * Paddington: Queasy?
 * Henry: Hmm.
 * Paddington: It's called a hard stare. [relaxes his face] My aunt taught me to do them when people had forgotten their manners.
 * Henry: [under his breath] Oh, give me strength.
 * Paddington: Mr. Brown, you can trust me. There really was an explorer. And if we can find him, I know he'll give me a home, a proper home, like yours. Now I've got an idea, but I'm going to need your help.


 * Paddington: But it wasn't my fault!
 * Henry: Who else was in the house? The front door was still locked.
 * Paddington: There was an elephant.
 * Jonathan: An elephant?
 * Judy: [confused] What?
 * Paddington: Well, it had a head of an elephant and a body of a snake. But it tried to shoot me!
 * Mrs. Bird: Have you been drinking saltwater?
 * Paddington: No.
 * Mary: [crouches down] Paddington, why don't you tell us what really happened?
 * Paddington: [confused] What?
 * Mary: We won't be cross.
 * Henry: Speak for yourself.
 * Paddington: Mrs. Brown, you must believe me. I would never lie to you.


 * Mary: "Dear, Browns. Thank you very much for having me stay. You're a very lovely family. I'm very sorry about the flood, and the fire, and the incident at the Geographer's Guild. [Henry looks away in guilt] I hope that... now I have gone, things will calm down a bit. Yours, Paddington." [puts down the note]
 * Judy: Well, shall we go after him?
 * Henry: It's...better this way. He didn't really belong here.
 * Jonathan: How can you say that? [runs out of the room]
 * Henry: [as Judy is about to leave] Judy...?
 * Judy: I'm going to my room. [puts on her headphones and leaves, Mary follows]
 * Henry: Where are you going?
 * Mary: I'm just, um... I need to know he's okay. [leaves, Henry sits on the table and sulks in regret]
 * Mrs. Bird: [sighs heavily] You just don't get it, do you?
 * Henry: [turns to look at Mrs. Bird] What?
 * Mrs. Bird: This family needed that wee bear every bit as much as he needed you. There, said my piece. [leaves the room]


 * Mr. Curry: Miss Clyde! [runs up to Millicent]
 * Millicent: Mr. Curry. What do you want?
 * Mr. Curry: [shows a bouquet of withered flowers] I found these tied to a lamppost and I thought: "Waste not, want not". [gives Millicent the bouquet]
 * Millicent: Charming. Now, if you'll excuse me... [walks away]
 * Mr. Curry: Uh...where exactly are you going?
 * Millicent: [stops and turns around] What concern is it of yours?
 * Mr. Curry: [points to the taxidermist van, referring to Paddington] You've got the bear in there.
 * Millicent: And...?
 * Mr. Curry: It's just... I thought you were sending him to Peru, but...
 * Millicent: I said I was sending him where he belongs, which, in his case, is the |Natural History Museum.
 * Mr. Curry: But, Honeypot, that is barbaric.
 * Millicent: [angrily] Mr. Curry, I am not your "Honeypot". I never was.
 * Mr. Curry: What?
 * Millicent: [gives Mr. Curry back the bouquet in frustration] Now take your rotten flowers and get out of here. Go. [Mr. Curry backs away slowly, she barks at him, he then runs away]


 * Millicent: [opens the museum doors] Welcome to your new home, bear. This is a cathedral of knowledge. Every major explorer has added to its glory. [points to 3 of many exhibits in the room] Charles Darwin brought the giant tortoise from the Galapagos.
 * Paddington: Good evening.
 * Millicent: Captain Scott, the emperor penguin from Antarctica.
 * Paddington: Gentlemen.
 * Millicent: Captain Cook, the kangaroo from Australia.
 * Paddington: G'day.
 * Millicent: Each of these men have been immortalized through these finds. But do you see anything from my father? No. Because when he met your oh-so-precious species, he refused to collect a specimen.
 * [the flashback begins]
 * Boss Geographer: No specimen?
 * Montgomery: Gentlemen, gentlemen... I-I-I mean, these were no dumb beasts. I mean, they-they were intelligent and civilized.
 * Geographer 1: Oh, come off it, Clyde. They didn't even speak English.
 * Montgomery: Well, no, but...
 * Geographer 2: Did they play cricket?
 * Geographer 3: Drink tea?
 * Geographer 4: Do the crossword?
 * Geographer 1: Pretty rum idea of civilization you've got, Clyde.
 * Boss: Tell us their location. We'll send a real explorer to get a specimen.
 * Montgomery: [pause] Never. [the crowd gasps]
 * Boss: Very well. You leave me no choice. This expedition shall be struck from the records. [receptionist rips off the records] Montgomery Clyde, I hereby revoke your membership of the hallowed Guild. [rips off his membership necklace] Geographers, turn your backs. [turns his back on Montgomery, followed by his fellow geographers]
 * Millicent: [during the flashback] We could've been rich and famous, but instead he threw it all away, and he opened a petting zoo. He put the happiness of a few furry creatures above his own flesh and blood. I vowed that one day, I would finish the job my father never could. [the flashback ends] And now, at last, that day has come. [unveils a glass box that reads "Ursus marmaladus", Paddington sees a foreshadowing vision of himself in it] That's right. I'm going to stuff you, bear.
 * [Paddington gasps and runs away in fear, trying to escape the museum, but Millicent shot him the butt with a tranquilizer]
 * Paddington: [weakly] Ow...! [he falls down the stairs and falls asleep]


 * Mary: [as they run to the leftmost window] Henry? Henry, do not go out there.
 * Jonathan: Do it, Dad!
 * Henry: Someone has to. [jumps down] And that someone is me.
 * Mary: Oh... Oh, I say... [Henry kisses her, Jonathan stares]
 * Judy: Um... [she looks away in embarrassment]
 * Mary: My hero. [her painting reveals Henry's face] Crikey. [Henry walks out the window]


 * Millicent: Not so fast! [the Browns gasp in fear] C'mon, hand over the bear.
 * Mary: No. We don't do that.
 * Paddington: Mrs. Brown?
 * Mary: [she puts her hand on Paddington] He's family.
 * Millicent: "Family"? You're not even the same species.
 * Paddington: It's true.
 * Henry: It is true. And when I first met Paddington, I wanted nothing to do with him. [looks at Mary] But my wonderful wife, she opened her heart to him. [looks back to Millicent] And so did my incredible children. And now I have too! [he walks up to Millicent]
 * Mary: [softly] Henry...
 * Henry: It doesn't matter that he comes from the other side of the world. Or that he's a different species. [Millicent prepares to shoot] Or that he has a worrying marmalade habit. We love Paddington, and that makes him family. |And families stick together! So if you want him, you'll have to take us all! [Mary smiles]
 * Millicent: Okay then. [Mary gasps in fear]
 * Henry: When I say "all"...
 * Millicent: I've never stuffed a human before, but...
 * Paddington: [interrupts] Wait! Wait. You don't need to do that. [starts walking towards Millicent]
 * Jonathan: Paddington!
 * Judy: [sadly] No.
 * Millicent: [smiling wickedly] Yes. That's it. Come, come.
 * Paddington: [sees a pigeon land on the roof] Uh...could I have one last request?
 * Millicent: [sighs is disgust] What is it?
 * Paddington: I'd like a sandwich. There's one in my hat.
 * Millicent: Go on then.
 * Paddington: Thank you. [takes off his hat, pulls out his sandwich, and throws it at Millicent]
 * Millicent: [the pigeons fly at her, leading her off the cliff] Nice try, bear! [the hatch opens in front of her] AAH!!!
 * Mrs. Bird: THE CROW'S NEST!
 * Paddington: Mrs. Bird!
 * Mrs. Bird: What?!
 * Millicent: [offscreen] Hey! [seen hanging on a flagpole] Why don't you look where you're going?
 * Mrs. Bird: Ah, shut your pie hole. [spills coffee on Millicent]

Taglines

 * Please look after this bear. Thank you.


 * The Adventure Begins.


 * Get ready for a little trouble.


 * The adventure is about to begin.


 * A little bear will make a big splash.

Logo

 * Lantern Entertainment
 * The Weinstein Company Dimension

Cast

 * Ben Whishaw — Voice of Paddington
 * Hugh Bonneville — Henry
 * Sally Hawkins — Mary
 * Julie Walters — Mrs. Bird
 * Jim Broadbent — Mr. Gruber
 * Peter Capaldi — Mr. Curry
 * Matt Lucas — Joe the Taxi Driver
 * Kayvan Novak — Grant
 * Madeleine Harris — Judy
 * Sam Joslin — Jonathan
 * Imelda Staunton — Voice of Lucy
 * Michael Gambon — Voice of Pastuzo
 * Nicole Kidman — Millicent