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Miss Potter (2006)
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Ratings: 7.0/10 from 14,416 users
Metascore:
57/100
Reviews: 137 user | 124 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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Phyllida Law | ... | |
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Patricia Kerrigan | ... | |
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Lucy Boynton | ... | |
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Oliver Jenkins | ... | |
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Storyline
In 1902, in London, the spinster Beatrix Potter lives with her bourgeois parents. Her snobbish mother Helen Potter had introduced several bachelors to Beatriz until she was twenty years old but she turned them all down. Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals and making up stories about them since she was a child but her parents has never recognized her as an artist. One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a print house and the rookie publisher Norman Warne is delighted with her tales and publishes her first children's book. The successful selling leads Norman to publish two other books and Miss Potter becomes the best friend of his single sister Millie Warne. Sooner they fall in love with each other but Helen does not accept that her daughter marries a "trader". However, Beatrix's father Rupert Potter proposes that his daughter spends the summer with his wife and... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The life of Beatrix Potter is the most enchanting tale of all. See more »Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
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Мисс Поттер See more »Box Office
Budget:
$30,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$13,205 (USA) (31 December 2006) (2 Screens)Gross:
$2,975,649 (USA) (24 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) See more »
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Trivia
Beatrix Potter's "Hilltop" house is actually "Yew Tree Farm" near the town of Coniston (part of the Lake District.) See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: In the film the book "The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck" is shown to be published followed by "The Tale of Two Bad Mice" then "The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle". In reality "Two Bad Mice" and "Tiggy-Winkle" were released in 1904 and 1905 respectively and "Jemima Puddle Duck" wasn't published until 1908 with five other books in the intermediate years. See more »Quotes
Rupert Potter: Our daughter is famous, Helen. You're the only person who doesn't know it.See more »
Soundtracks
"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) See more »
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