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Review: Miss Potter
Filed under: Animation », Drama », Romance », New Releases », MGM », Theatrical Reviews », The Weinstein Co. », Family Films »
One of the great tragedies in the current onslaught of biopics is that they seem to have adopted a movie formula, as if any old person's life could be crammed into the same three-act structure. (Aren't human beings supposed to be as different as snowflakes?) The most brutally obvious recent examples were Ray (2004) and Walk the Line (2005), which, as we speak, are probably inadvertently merging the legends of Ray Charles and Johnny Cash into interchangeable tidbits.
Chris Noonan's Miss Potter doesn't rectify this situation, but it does move in a different direction, into a more fanciful realm. It's more interested in capturing the essence of its subject -- children's author Beatrix Potter -- than in providing a checklist of the things she accomplished. Like a smoother Finding Neverland (2004), it moves away from reality and into movieland, which at least is more honest than falsely representing reality. Miss Potter starts badly and ends badly, but a good, solid hour in the middle is as charming as anything you'll see this holiday season. It's actually a perfect movie to see on Christmas Day between presents and dinner.
McGregor, Zellweger for Peter Rabbit
Filed under: Animation », Drama », Casting »
I'm not exactly sure what led anyone to believe
that there would be an audience for a movie about Beatrix Potter - the creator of Peter Rabbit - and her "struggle
for independence in Victorian England," but there's one on the way, so hopes must be high. The movie, which will
combine live action with animation (Perhaps she was secretly insane, and Peter Rabbit was actually a good friend?), is
to be called Miss Potter, and will be
directed by Chris Noonan, an Aussie who wrote and directed Babe so, if nothing else, he'll be able to
handle the live/animated mix without difficulty.Starring in the film are Renée Zellweger, who will play the author, and Ewan McGregor as publisher Norman Warne, whose death from leukemia a month after his secret engagement to Potter was a turning point in her life. Additionally, Emily Watson has recently joined the cast in an undermined role.
Slated for a 2007 release, the movie begins filming in early March.
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