We Bought A Zoo
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Film running length: 124 min
(excl trailers and advertisements) - UK Release Date: 16/3/2012
- Directed by: Cameron Crowe
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Co
Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church
Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson star in ‘We Bought a Zoo’, the incredible true story of a father who moves his young family to the countryside to restore and re-open a struggling zoo.
In an attempt to bring his family back together, he relocates, along with his two children, to the dilapidated menagerie where the family embark on a soul-restoring journey to return the zoo to its former glory.
Directed by Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous), ‘We Bought a Zoo’ is an adaptation of Benjamin Mee's autobiographical memoir.
Contains mild language.
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