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Mar 15, 2012 · We Bought a Zoo – review. In this traditional, sweet-natured family film, Matt Damon plays a handsome widower, bringing up two kids, who impulsively buys a dilapidated zoo in California. Peter ...
Nov 27, 2011 · What We Bought a Zoo has in common with that earlier film is a genuine depth of feeling. There’s also a lovely lightness of touch in the application of romance as a healing balm, both in the ...
Dec 23, 2011 · We Bought a Zoo, a memoir by Benjamin Mee, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working ...
WE BOUGHT A ZOO has a redemptive message of a family uniting in the midst of a tragedy. It also has a good lesson about the reward for taking risks and working hard to make a family business venture pay off for the family. The family makes no effort, however, to seek God’s help. WE BOUGHT A ZOO is well made that will make you cry but also smile.
Dec 23, 2011 · Matt Damon plays grieving widower Benjamin in "We Bought a Zoo" The movie is genuinely funny, sweet and kindhearted, our critic says. He says it's great counterprogramming to some of heavier end ...
Dec 23, 2011 · We Bought a Zoo: Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Colin Ford. Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.
As the zoo is rehabbed, so are the individuals. No surprise there. The main conflict in the story comes from the hard-headedness of Benjamin and Dylan, as they ignore their inability to communicate and fail to connect as father and son. A couple of their scenes together are the best in the film for acting and realistic dialogue.
