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We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 American biographical family comedy-drama film loosely based on the 2008 memoir of the same name by Benjamin Mee.It was co-written and directed by Cameron Crowe and stars Matt Damon as widowed father Benjamin Mee, who purchases a dilapidated zoo with his family and takes on the challenge of preparing the zoo for its reopening to the public.
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.
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Dec 11, 2023 · December 11, 2023. Cameron Crowe’s 2011 comedy-drama film ‘We Bought a Zoo’ depicts the affecting true story of Benjamin Mee, who bought a 30-acre zoo located in Dartmoor, England. Ben’s search for a house for his family to stay in ended when he learned about Dartmoor Wildlife Park. He came to know that the fates of the animals in the ...
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Dec 21, 2011 · There really is a Benjamin Mee, and he and his family really did buy a zoo. The Dartmoor Zoological Park in Devon, England, was opened in 1968, closed in 2006 and then was purchased by the Mee family. In adapting these facts into the movie "We Bought a Zoo," all Cameron Crowe has done is move it to Southern California, supply it with a staff of character actors, add two romances and a villain ...
Dec 23, 2011 · We Bought a Zoo is a transparently cloying effort by director Cameron Crowe, but Matt Damon makes for a sympathetic central character. Following his wife's untimely death, Los Angeles journalist ...
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Oct 28, 2011 · Cameron Crowe, the director and screenwriter of “We Bought a Zoo.”. Neal Preston/20th Century Fox. His new movie, “We Bought a Zoo,” is based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, the British ...
Dec 21, 2011 · Published Dec 21, 2011. Cameron Crowe We Bought a Zoo Interview. Cameron Crowe Talks WE BOUGHT A ZOO, His Upcoming Documentary THE UNION, His Next Movie, and More. Acclaimed filmmaker Cameron ...
