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We bought a zoo [videorecording] / LBI Entertainment / Vinyl Films production ; produced by Julie Yorn, Cameron Crowe, Rick Yorn ; screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna and Cameron Crowe ; directed by Cameron Crowe.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 2275169 | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment2275170 | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment2280538 | Twentieth Century Fox Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2012.Description: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Music by Jonsi; film editor, Mark Livolsi.
Cast: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Elle Fanning, John Michael Higgins.Summary: 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 with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD COMEDY We bough Checked out 05/14/2024 33111010007751
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD New COMEDY WE BOUGH Available 33111010009302
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A widower (Matt Damon) purchases a zoo in order to bring his family back together in this Twentieth Century Fox adaptation of Benjamin Mee's autobiographical memoir. Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) writes and directs based on a script by Aline Brosh McKenna. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Based on the book by Benjamin Mee.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.

Title from container.

Music by Jonsi; film editor, Mark Livolsi.

Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Elle Fanning, John Michael Higgins.

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 with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.

MPAA rating: PG; for language and some thematic elements CHV rating: PG; for coarse language OFRB rating: PG; for language.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 (English), Dolby surround (French, Spanish).

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); English descriptive audio for people with visual disabilities; closed-captioned.

English, French or Spanish dialogue with optional Spanish subtitles.

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