We Bought A Zoo - 8904

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: LFV.B004LWZW9W.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:Matt Damon|Colin Ford|Thomas Haden Church|Scarlett Johansson|Maggie Elizabeth Jones|JB Smoove|Kym Whitley|Nelson Bush|J.B. Smoove|Kym E. Whitley|Patrick Fugit|Elle Fanning|Stephanie Szostak|Angus MacFadyen|John Michael Higgins|Peter Riegert|Carla Gallo|Michael Panes|Todd Stanton|Lauren Sanchez|Roberto Montesinos|Desi Lydic|Erick Chavarria|Sam Fox|Dustin Ybarra|Ben Seeder|Alice Marie Crowe|Michelle Panek|Gary D. Robertson|Nicole Russell|Reid Peters|Taylor Victoria Cerza|Steve Bessette|Hal Alpert|Leslie Trotter|Steven Mushond Lee|Kate Yerves|Caroline Elizabeth Hanna|David Lopez|Benjamin Mee|Ella Mee|Milo Mee|Sammi Yorn|William Crowe|Curtis Crowe|Johnny Cicco|Alexia Barroso|Thomas R Baker|David Kenyon|Shannah Barrett|Christie Kittelsen|Michelle Pickens|Gabriel Escalante|Bart the Bear|Tank|Crystal|Felix|Ninja|David Arnott|Chantelle Barry|Mikaila Baumel|Doug Burch|Cathy Cavadini|Vicki Davis|Peggy Flood|Aaron Fors|Elan Garfias|Taylar Hender|Barbara Iley|Jossara Jinaro|Maxim Knight|Daamen Krall|Jeremy Maxwell|David Michie|Danny Mora|Vivianne Nacif|Levi Nunez|Noreen Reardon|David Randolph|Danielle Soibelman|Eric Unger|Andreana Weiner|Cameron Crowe|Julie Yorn|Marc R. Gordon|Rick Yorn
Binding: Dvd