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Apr 22, 2011 · Water for Elephants: Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider. Jacob takes a job as an animal caretaker in a traveling circus. There he meets Marlena, a beautiful circus performer.
- (119K)
- Drama, Romance
- Francis Lawrence
- 2011-04-22
Water for Elephants is a 2006 historical romance novel by Canadian–American author Sara Gruen. The novel is set in a 20th-century circus. Gruen wrote the book as part of the National Novel Writing Month. A film adaptation was released in 2011, while a stage musical began presentations in 2023 and opened on Broadway in spring 2024.
- Sara Gruen
- 331 (first edition)
- 2006
- May 26, 2006 (1st edition)
Water for Elephants is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Sara Gruen. The film stars Reese Witherspoon , Robert Pattinson , Christoph Waltz , and Hal Holbrook .
- $38 million
- James Newton Howard
- April 22, 2011
Apr 22, 2011 · Water for Elephants. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson), a veterinary student, is close to graduating when a terrible tragedy forces him to leave school. With...
- (4.5K)
- Francis Lawrence
- PG-13
- Reese Witherspoon
May 22, 2006 · Sara Gruen. 4.11. 1,620,506 ratings62,713 reviews. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town.
- (1.6M)
- Paperback
- Sara Gruen
Against all odds, a veterinary student (Pattinson) and a beautiful circus performer, meet and fall in love, but the secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband. 5,180 IMDb 6.9 1 h 55 min 2011. X-Ray PG-13. Drama · Romance · Atmospheric · Emotional. Available to rent or buy.