Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The

[Opens Feb. 23 in theaters as part of Oscar 2024 Live-Action Shorts.] Fantastic, unique sets dominate Wes Anderson's quirky, Oscar-nominated, artistic, wit-punctuated, creative, 40-minute British and USA film based on Roald Dahl's 1977 short story in which a storyteller (Ralph Fiennes) tells of a wealthy, gambling, English bachelor (Benedict Cumberbatch) in London who wants to cheat at casinos by learning a technique of a circus-loving Indian (Ben Kingsley), who was able to see while blind with the help of two physicians (Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade), in order to give won money to charity and those in need.
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