Mr. Popper is a house painter who dreams of Arctic exploration,
which prompts him to write letters to real explorers. One of them sends
him a penguin, which he keeps in the icebox. Before he knows it, the
painter has a litter of 12 beaked birds. They eat voraciously, leading
him to form Popper's Performing Penguins, a stage act that goes on tour
and creates mayhem at every stop.
