Mr. Popper's Penguins

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 an 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.