Mr Stink (film)
2012 film by Declan Lowney
Mr Stink is a 2012 British 60-minute children's fantasy comedy-drama television film based on the 2009 David Walliams book of the same name. It was directed by Declan Lowney and written by Walliams and Simon Nye and it stars Hugh Bonneville, Pudsey the Dog, Nell Tiger Free, Johnny Vegas, Sheridan Smith, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Harish Patel, Walliams and Jemma Donovan. Mr Stink premiered on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 23 December 2012 and it became the first BBC television film to be filmed in stereoscopic 3D.
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A 12-year-old girl named Chloe Crumb is on the bus on the way to her school in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Her nemesis Pippa throws a banana skin at a homeless man called Mr. Stink who is sitting on a park bench with his dog Duchess. She goes to apologize to Mr. Stink for Pippa's delinquency and offers him £5; Mr. Stink asks for some sausages for the Duchess. The following morning, she takes some sausages to give them to Mr. Stink.
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