We Bought a Zoo

Amazon.com Though adapted from a memoir by a British journalist, We Bought a Zoo feels entirely like a Cameron Crowe film, with clear parallels to previous crowd-pleasers like Jerry Maguire. Crowe introduces Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon in a role that recalls his Contagion character) six months after the death of his wife. Since everything reminds him of her, the California columnist decides to make a change, starting with a new location. His realtor (Curb Your Enthusiasm's J.B. Smoove), brother (Sideways' Thomas Haden Church), and sullen teenage son (Colin Ford) try to talk him out of it, but Mee falls in love with a country manor that comes with a strange stipulation: the tenant must manage the zoo that accompanies the property. With his daughter's blessing, Mee takes the plunge. Fortunately, he inherits an experienced staff, including MacCready (Angus MacFadyen), Robin (Patrick Fugit), Lily (Elle Fanning), and Kelly (Scarlett Johansson, lovely as ever in her least glamorous role to date). Mee's road to reinvention offers few surprises, but Damon makes him a sympathetic figure who finds the same kind of support system among the park personnel that Fugit's Almost Famous writer found in the rock world, except Mee's relationships have more staying power. If his detractors--a skeptical employee and an unctuous inspector--feel like screenwriter constructs, Zoo represents a return to form for Crowe after a series of missteps, including Elizabethtown. Better yet, the real-life park that Mee acquired continues to lead by example as a humane habitat for endangered species. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Product Description Acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) directs an amazing and true story about a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory.
ASIN: B004LWZW9W
VSKU: HBSV.B004LWZW9W.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Matt Damon|Thomas Haden Church|Maggie Elizabeth Jones|JB Smoove|Colin Ford|Scarlett Johansson|Kym Whitley|Nelson Bush|J.B. Smoove|Kym E. Whitley|Elle Fanning|Patrick Fugit|Angus MacFadyen|Stephanie Szostak|John Michael Higgins|Michael Panes|Peter Riegert|Todd Stanton|Carla Gallo|Lauren Sanchez|Sam Fox|Roberto Montesinos|Desi Lydic|Erick Chavarria|Ben Seeder|Dustin Ybarra|Alice Marie Crowe|Gary D. Robertson|Michelle Panek|Taylor Victoria Cerza|Nicole Russell|Leslie Trotter|Hal Alpert|Steve Bessette|Kate Yerves|Steven Mushond Lee|Reid Peters|David Lopez|Caroline Elizabeth Hanna|William Crowe|Benjamin Mee|Milo Mee|Curtis Crowe|Johnny Cicco|Sammi Yorn|Alexia Barroso|Ella Mee|David Kenyon|Shannah Barrett|Christie Kittelsen|Gabriel Escalante|Michelle Pickens|Thomas R Baker|Bart the Bear|Tank|Felix|Crystal|Chantelle Barry|Ninja|David Arnott|Mikaila Baumel|Doug Burch|Cathy Cavadini|Peggy Flood|Vicki Davis|Aaron Fors|Elan Garfias|Taylar Hender|Barbara Iley|Jossara Jinaro|Jeremy Maxwell|Vivianne Nacif|Daamen Krall|David Michie|Levi Nunez|Noreen Reardon|Danny Mora|Maxim Knight|Danielle Soibelman|David Randolph|Andreana Weiner|Cameron Crowe|Julie Yorn|Eric Unger|Marc R. Gordon|Rick Yorn
Binding: Dvd
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