Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 12/29/06 (Limited) 01/19/07 Home Video 06/19/07 MPAA Rating Rated PG for brief mild language Running Time 1 hour 33 minutes Genre Drama Director Chris Noonan Writer Richard Maltby, Jr. Cast Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson, Lloyd Owen Studio The Wenstein Co. |
MISS POTTER
SYNOPSIS
Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children
with her books. But she kept her own private life
locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renee
Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to the
screen in "Miss Potter," the first film directed by
Chris Noonan since his charming 1995 movie, Babe.
It is set in the high summer days of late Victorian
and Edwardian England, during which Beatrix
develops her natural skills as artist and story-teller.
When she finally publishes her debut book, The Tale
of Peter Rabbit, she becomes a writing celebrity. It
also leads to courtship and her first love with
publisher Norman Warne, played by Ewan McGregor.
Their relationship and his marriage proposal in July,
1905, was to change Beatrix's life for ever.
It was a love which she could not announce - or even
talk about. In high-society London, her parents had
insisted she keep it from friends and neighbours.
They considered her proposed wedding a mismatch.
Warne, they said, was from ‘trade' and demanded
that she carefully reconsider their life together.
Beatrix allowed herself to be persuaded to leave her
fiancé and London. It was supposed to be a time for
reflection and calm. But, instead, she faced tragedy
and loneliness and returned, with a different outlook.
Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children
with her books. But she kept her own private life
locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renee
Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to the
screen in "Miss Potter," the first film directed by
Chris Noonan since his charming 1995 movie, Babe.
It is set in the high summer days of late Victorian
and Edwardian England, during which Beatrix
develops her natural skills as artist and story-teller.
When she finally publishes her debut book, The Tale
of Peter Rabbit, she becomes a writing celebrity. It
also leads to courtship and her first love with
publisher Norman Warne, played by Ewan McGregor.
Their relationship and his marriage proposal in July,
1905, was to change Beatrix's life for ever.
It was a love which she could not announce - or even
talk about. In high-society London, her parents had
insisted she keep it from friends and neighbours.
They considered her proposed wedding a mismatch.
Warne, they said, was from ‘trade' and demanded
that she carefully reconsider their life together.
Beatrix allowed herself to be persuaded to leave her
fiancé and London. It was supposed to be a time for
reflection and calm. But, instead, she faced tragedy
and loneliness and returned, with a different outlook.
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She became a woman of strong views and independence. She also built up a farming dynasty in the Lake
District - a dynasty over which she took charge long after her writing career virtually ended in 1913. It
established her as a woman ahead of her time. Despite becoming the world's most successful children's
writer and a wealthy landowner and prize-winning farmer, she never forgot her first love.
-- © Weinstein Co.
District - a dynasty over which she took charge long after her writing career virtually ended in 1913. It
established her as a woman ahead of her time. Despite becoming the world's most successful children's
writer and a wealthy landowner and prize-winning farmer, she never forgot her first love.
-- © Weinstein Co.