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We Bought a Zoo (2011) - Movie Details

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Release Date: December 23, 2011
On DVD: April 3, 2012
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Director: Cameron Crowe
Writer: Aline Brosh McKenna
Cast: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Colin Ford, Angus MacFadyen, John Michael Higgins
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Official site: weboughtazoomovie.com
Running Time: 124 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG for language and some thematic elements

This holiday season, 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....

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In We Bought a Zoo, a man grieving the loss of his wife and his children's mother decides to move out of the city and buy a zoo, because studies show that the best way to get over the death of a loved one is to buy a multi-acre property full of expensive and dangerous exotic animals. Cameron Crowe's first theatrical movie in six years and his best since Almost Famous, We Bought a Zoo is an uplifting, moving and entertaining drama that hits all the right emotional chords.

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