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Miss Potter (2006) 6.9
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6.9/10 from 17,679 users
Metascore: 57/100
Reviews: 139 user | 125 critic | 29 from Metacritic.com The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success. Director:Chris NoonanWriter:Richard Maltby Jr. |
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| Renée Zellweger | ... | ||
| Ewan McGregor | ... | ||
| Emily Watson | ... | ||
| Barbara Flynn | ... | ||
| Bill Paterson | ... | ||
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Matyelok Gibbs | ... | |
| Lloyd Owen | ... | ||
| Anton Lesser | ... | ||
| David Bamber | ... | ||
| Phyllida Law | ... | ||
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Patricia Kerrigan | ... | |
| Lucy Boynton | ... | ||
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Oliver Jenkins | ... | |
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In 1902, in London, the spinster Beatrix Potter lives with her bourgeois parents. Her snobbish mother, Helen Potter, had introduced several bachelors to Beatrix until she was twenty years old, but she had turned them all down. Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals and making up stories about them since she was a child, but her parents have never recognized her as an artist. One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a print house, and a rookie publisher, Norman Warne, who is delighted with her tales, publishes her first children's book. This success leads Norman to publish two other books, and Miss Potter meanwhile becomes the best friend of his single sister Millie Warne. Soon Beatrix and Norman fall in love with each other, but Helen does not accept that her daughter would marry a "trader". However, Beatrix's father Rupert Potter proposes that his daughter spend the summer with his wife and him in their country house in Lake District, and if she is still interested in Norman after... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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EnglishRelease Date:
5 January 2007 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Beatrix Potter - taiteilijaelämää See more »Box Office
Budget:
$30,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£1,400,943 (UK) (5 January 2007)Gross:
$2,975,649 (USA) (22 June 2007)Company Credits
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Performed by Katie Melua
Written by Nigel Westlake, Mike Batt and Richard Maltby
Produced and Arranged by Mike Batt
Recording Engineer Steve Sale
Another Name Music (ASCAP)
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'Ewan McGregor' was 'Renee Zellweger''s first choice to star beside her as Miss Potter's romantic interest, Mr. Norman Warne. See more »Goofs
While Millie is outside Beatrix's room we see her shadow against the door and it reveals that her mouth movement is out of sync with the sound. See more »Quotes
Beatrix Potter: Stories don't always end where their authors intended. But there is joy in following them, wherever they take us.See more »
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"When You Taught Me How to Dance"Performed by Katie Melua
Written by Nigel Westlake, Mike Batt and Richard Maltby
Produced and Arranged by Mike Batt
Recording Engineer Steve Sale
Another Name Music (ASCAP)
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This is a fine movie. It has exquisite beauty, love, aspiration and dreams--- and meticulous historical vibes. It is very true to the real story of Beatrix Potter. It is also a solidly interesting and entertaining movie as well. Far from being only a mere confection and therefore meaningless, 'Miss Potter' is meaty and solid.
In addition to being a great dramatic movie and true to life, it also possesses charm and grace. The very selective animation of the watercolour characters she drew--- and animated only for Miss Potter's eyes, mind!--- are sweet, and totally in line with the original paintings she made 100 years ago. It is truly as if the characters come alive for her, and we get to share her passion, intimacy, and love for them, rather than the audience merely seeing a 'cartoon' of some kind. A welcome and pure delight!
The movie, in being faithful to the real Miss Potter's life, reflected her actual world. Note that she had a chaperon at all times, even when in her own garden, or shopping. Social mores and what was proper or not occupied her mother, who herself was only a generation away from being one of those odious and lowly creatures she so despised--- 'a tradesman'. Heavens!
Anyway--- given the life and times of Beatrix Potter, a movie about her will have certain degree of that as well--- a certain gentility. Note also that her children's books were also the very soul of discretion and refinement. She painted watercolor bunnies, for goodness' sake. I found the life she did lead, and which was amply depicted in this movie, to be as dramatic as any. Consider what she endured, and what she went through. As well as what she didn't go through. She was healthy, and rich, so we won't see a lot of struggling with survival. She was kind and refined, so we won't see a lot of violence and judgement and hatred, etc.---- those things were simply not in her.
She was, nonetheless, truly inspirational. She was bold, and a free thinker who displayed a lot of courage. She wasn't a prostitute or a criminal or a resistance fighter or a herion addict or any 'dramatic' thing like that. Maybe she didn't have to agonize over each piece of literature she produced, but the process of creativity and perseverance she did go through was inspiring to me.
Renee Zellweger did a remarkable job. And just think--- she comes from Texas! The fact that a Texan pulled off a spot-on portrayal of a great English artist seems to have bent the noses of a tiny few English folks--- maybe they are jealous, and stuck in some old and fetid dream of a long gone Empire? Dunno. But I loved Zellweger in this, and I think you will too. She masterfully and expertly did Beatrix Potter, and the English society of the turn of the last century, proud.