Bonobo (2014)

Director
Matthew Hammett Knott

Main cast
James Norton; Will Tudor; Tessa Peake-Jones; Eleanor Wyld; Eleanor Wyld

Genres
Comedy

Description
Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.


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