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Children & Kids Furniture Store - Miss Potter
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Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson
Directed By: Chris Noonan
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019801744
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-06-19
Running Time: 93
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Summary: Enchanting and mesmerizing
Comment: A beautiful historical tale of creativity, perseverence, living authentically, and a zest for life. Drama, angst, celebration. It invokes a lot of emotion as one identifies with Miss Potter and her struggle to be OK with her out-of-sync outlook in Victorian London. Suitable for family viewing.
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Summary: Celebrating Beatrix
Comment: MISS POTTER is a glorious, whimsical family film. A biography of the life and times of the beloved children's author, Beatrix Potter, this film brings to life her incredible world and vivid imagination. Sweet, joyful, and touching, MISS POTTER is not to be missed.
Beatrix Potter lived a unique and rich life inside her head. Her friends, Peter Rabbit, Jemimah Puddle-duck, Benjamin Bunny, Tom Kitten, and a host of others, jumped out of her fertile, active mind and on to the water-color pages she so lovingly painted. A spinster at the turn of the century, Beatrix Potter over came her quirkiness and shyness to become the world's best known children's author. By a sheer twist of fate, she was thrown together with a publisher who believed in her and her work. She remained innocent and naive throughout most of her life, unaware of her fame and her fortune, and under the thumb of a mother who did not understand her or believe in her. Eventually, she finds her own way, and the children everywhere, and the entire world, are much richer for it.
MISS POTTER is beautifully acted with stunning locations. Renée Zellweger is simply delightful in the title role, and Ewan McGregor is outstanding as the one person who believes in her completely. They are magical together, making this film a joy to behold. The lush settings and locations are gorgeous; the colors leap off the screen, enveloping the audience in Beatrix Potter's life.
Multiple generations of my family were touched by this this celebration of Beatrix Potter on a quiet Christmas afternoon. Entertaining and beautiful, MISS POTTER is MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. My mother-in-law, Suzanne, would have adored this film.
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Summary: Miss Potter
Comment: This well casted period piece gives us a good look into one of the most famous writers of childrens books. Beatrix Potter was an amazing woman and Ren'ee Zellwegger plays her incredibly well. She shows us her quirks and unwielding believe in her animal characters. We see her talent in her style of painting them and creating stories about them. Ewan McGregor plays her publisher with style and heart. I was drawn into her life story and found myself wanting more after the end of the movie. A romance and drama that is mostly lighthearted. A great documentary and other extras are included to fill you in even more. I highly recommend this entertaining story of Beatrix Potter. If you enjoyed this catch "Finding Forester".
CA Luster
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Summary: Miss Potter
Comment: This is a very good family film and may inspire some girls to become authors!
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Summary: In Defense Of Whimsy
Comment: Frankly, in the mist of time back to the days of my childhood, I was both fearful and delighted by the stories and illustrations of the famous English children's' book writer and illustrator who is the subject of this film, Ms. Beatrix Potter. Perhaps it was fear of the size of the animals in the editions that I would receive from a great aunt. Or because that aunt was poor but thoughtful it might have been the black and white illustrations in the editions that I received. (I was rather startled to see in this film that her work during her lifetime, at her fervent request to her publishers, was done in multi-colors.) Be that as it may be there are a couple of points that I want to make about this very interesting and well-acted film (particularly by Rene Zellweger as Ms. Potter) which on the face of it would seem outside the parameters of the kind of thing that would interest me and the kinds of subjects that I tend to write about in this space.
I am not sure how faithfully the creators of this film were to the biography of Ms. Potter's life, however, for my purpose that is neither here nor there. The story line here concerns (aside from the various romantic interests which a commercial film seemingly cannot do without even with accomplished middle class educated women like Ms. Potter or Ms. Jane Austen) the public flowering of the her story telling and illustrative talents under the guidance of a member of her publishing company (and eventual doom-struck lover) in early 20th century England.
That, of course, is a feat worthy of recognition in and of itself as this is the height of the Victorian period in that country. Her pluck and fortitude as she runs up against the ill wishes of her middle class but very class conscious parents (particularly dear Mrs. Potter) is one of the themes that drive this film. Another is the fate of a thirty-two year old unmarried woman who, moreover, is not concerned about being married if it interferes with her chances for artistic success. Fair enough, but Mother England (to speak nothing of Mother Potter) does not approve.
Finally, this film is a nice look at the fate of the creative artist who is in searching for her self-expression faces at least some condescension for being, merely, a children's' book writer (especially when she could be a ...wife and mother).
Those are the interesting themes presented in this film. The way that Ms. Potter struggles and perseveres to become an independent person with her own resources and navigate her own course through life is another in a now long series of female "uplift" films. This one is a worthy addition to that genre. As to the downside of Ms. Potter's story. The period under discussion was one of great social turmoil in England. This is, after all, the heyday of the women's suffragette movement led by the like of Sylvia Pankhurst (and her sister and mother) and of the emergence of a British Labor party led by Keri Hardie as well as other social experiments. There is no sense in this film that Ms. Potter was aware of such movements or much interested in them.
No one expects an artist, a creative artist to boot, per se to devote their talents for the greater good of their society in a political way. However it helps. Ms. Potter did begin to display a little of that consciousness toward the end of the movie, after she broke from her family and set on her own course, and set up independently in the country and attempted to preserve her Lake District surroundings. But rather than belabor that point let me end with this thought. When we fight for and get a more just society than we have now then maybe there will be time and space enough for a thousand thousand Beatrix Potters to flourish. Until then watch this film and do not be afraid to read her little books with those little animal drawings.
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Editorial Reviews:
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(Drama) 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.
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