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We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 American biographical comedy drama film loosely based on the 2008 memoir of the same name by Benjamin Mee.It was co-written and directed by Cameron Crowe and stars Matt Damon as widowed father Benjamin Mee, who purchases a dilapidated zoo with his family and takes on the challenge of preparing the zoo for its reopening to the public.
A four part television documentary entitled Ben's Zoo was broadcast in 2006. It followed the story of Mee and his staff as they worked to rebuild the park. In 2008 Benjamin Mee published a book titled We Bought a Zoo, about his and his family's experiences within the zoo. The book was loosely adapted into a 2011 film, We Bought a Zoo.
Maggie Elizabeth Jones is an American retired child actress, best known for her roles in We Bought a Zoo, the Fox sitcom Ben and Kate, [1] and as Lea Clark in An American Girl: Lea to the Rescue. [ 2 ]
In December 2011, Fanning appeared in Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo. [24] She played Lily, a 13-year-old who is working at the zoo's restaurant and lives on the property with her only parental figure, Kelly (Scarlett Johansson).
Here's how the cast compares to the real-life people involved. ... "I worked with ['We Bought a Zoo' director] Cameron Crowe when I was 13, and he played Bob Dylan a lot. He would play 'Buckets of ...
Colin Lee Ford [1] (born September 12, 1996) [2] is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Josh Wheeler in Daybreak, Joe McAlister in Under the Dome, [3] the voice of Jake on Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Mikey on Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?, which earned him a Young Artist Award, young Sam Winchester in Supernatural, and Dylan Mee in the family film We Bought a Zoo.
Shooting on 35mm film, Green clearly wants to reconnect with a time when movies let kids go rogue, though the result lands closer to Cameron Crowe’s sappy crowd-pleaser “We Bought a Zoo ...
Fanning had been introduced to Dylan’s music when she was a 12-year-old on the set of Cameron Crowe’s "We Bought a Zoo." Crowe would play the song "Buckets of Rain" all the time.