We Bought a Zoo
2011 film by Cameron Crowe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 American biographical family comedy-drama film loosely based on the 2008 memoir of the same name by Benjamin Mee. It was co-written and directed by Cameron Crowe and stars Matt Damon as widowed father Benjamin Mee, who purchases a dilapidated zoo with his family and takes on the challenge of preparing the zoo for its reopening to the public. The film also stars Scarlett Johansson, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Elle Fanning, Colin Ford, and John Michael Higgins.
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Directed by | Cameron Crowe |
Screenplay by | Aline Brosh McKenna Cameron Crowe |
Based on | We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee |
Produced by | Julie Yorn Marc Gordon Cameron Crowe |
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Cinematography | Rodrigo Prieto |
Edited by | Mark Livolsi |
Music by | Jónsi |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $50 million[1] |
Box office | $120.1 million[2] |
We Bought a Zoo was released in the United States on December 21, 2011 by 20th Century Fox.[3] The film earned $120.1 million on a $50 million budget. We Bought a Zoo was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 3, 2012 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Dartmoor Zoological Park (originally Dartmoor Wildlife Park), on which the film is based, is a 33-acre zoological garden located near the village of Sparkwell, Devon, England.