Has ANYONE seen the new Beatrix Potter Movie? Was it Good?

[KoKo]

I'm hoping to go tonight...but haven't checked the Lounge for posts about it. :shrug:

BTW: "Rotten Tomatoes" gave it a pretty good review... :shrug:

[KoKo]

1. BTW....I'm back and it's a WONDERFUL MOVIE...A Not to Miss

for "quiet folks." Great Scenery, Story Line, Acting and music.

It's a WONDERFUL MOVIE. Deserves Academy Award Nomination on some level. Check it out.

There's even a GL subplot that's fascinating and on a deeper level than one might think.

Here's link to "Rotten Tomatoe's" Review...there are others ...if one cares to GOOGLE.

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CRITICAL CONSENSUS

A charming biopic with that maintains its sweetness even in sadder moments.

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_potter/about.php



SYNOPSIS

Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children with her books. But she kept her own private life locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renee Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to the screen in "Miss Potter," the first film directed by Chris Noonan since his charming 1995 movie, Babe. It is set in the high summer days of late Victorian and Edwardian England, during which Beatrix develops her natural skills as artist and story-teller. When she finally publishes her debut book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she becomes a writing celebrity. It also leads to courtship and her first love with publisher Norman Warne, played by Ewan McGregor. Their relationship and his marriage proposal in July, 1905, was to change Beatrix's life for ever.

It was a love which she could not announce - or even talk about. In high-society London, her parents had insisted she keep it from friends and neighbours. They considered her proposed wedding a mismatch. Warne, they said, was from ‘trade' and demanded that she carefully reconsider their life together. Beatrix allowed herself to be persuaded to leave her fiancé and London. It was supposed to be a time for reflection and calm. But, instead, she faced tragedy and loneliness and returned, with a different outlook. She became a woman of strong views and independence. She also built up a farming dynasty in the Lake District - a dynasty over which she took charge long after her writing career virtually ended in 1913. It established her as a woman ahead of her time. Despite becoming the world's most successful children's writer and a wealthy landowner and prize-winning farmer, she never forgot her first love. -- © Weinstein Co.

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_potter/about.php

[wildhorses]

2. its too late for oscar nominations . it came out last year, right?

but, YES i want to see it:loveya:

thanks for the review

:hi:

[KoKo]

3. It was just released, I believe?

Just showed up as NEW in my local arts cinema. :shrug:

[wildhorses]

4. sorry--2006

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0482546/

A "Mary Poppins" Merry Movie :), 9 December 2006

"Miss Potter" is a wonderful movie caused me to coo, "AwwWWwwWw..." rather often. My friend and I thought it was such a heart-warming movie, through every scene, we kept wondering, "Wait, when does the climatic bad part happen?" This movie shows the inspiring journey that the successful author of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter, undergoes.

Beatrix loved drawing woodland animals as a girl and telling stories about them to her maid and younger brother. Despite her mother's stolid opinion against her adroit hobby, Beatrix displays her fortitude as a young woman trying to get a publisher. She is introduced to the youngest son of a publishing company, who is played by the urbane and charming Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge). Miss Potter's only friends were her drawings of her forest creatures, until she met the young publisher and her comical sister. Her drawings come to life (you see them animated whenever Beatrix looks at them) and are reflections of characters in her own life and feelings.

Reoccuring themes such as friendship, anti-marriage in the early 1900s in the views of suffragettes, and attainment of one's dreams.

Highly recommended for anyone who's been wanting a poignant, feel-good film. :)

[KoKo]

5. I live in NC....maybe we get movies a year late....It just opened here...

:shrug:

[wildhorses]

6. yes, we get them late and yes i know cos i live in podunk, nc too

:pals:

[KoKo]

7. Well....it's still good for a Rental for those who missed it first time around...

:hug: back atcha...