Simon Callow

Well-intentioned Bob Tree is a clumsy, accident prone guy who is incapable of holding down a job. Flipping through the Yellow Pages, Bob comes across an advertisement for a butler school in England. Shortly after he starts his training he is hired by a desperate mother in dire need of assistance. Bob moves in with the family and they begin to realize that Bob is an accident waiting to happen.

Eddie Izzard gives a riveting performance as a reclusive scientist and her murderous alter-ego in Joe Stephenson's gripping, gender-flipped re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's seminal horror story. Co-starring Scott Chambers and Lindsay Duncan, Doctor Jekyll channels the sinister paranoia of Hammer's classic psycho-thrillers while still remaining fresh, modern and contemporary.