Miss Potter ( Ms Potter ) ( Ms. Potter )

Miss Potter (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Ms Potter
Alternate Title: Ms. Potter
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( DTS 5.1 )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Chris Noonan

Written By:
Richard Maltby Jr.

Actors:
Renée Zellweger ..... Beatrix Potter
Ewan McGregor ..... Norman Warne
Emily Watson ..... Millie Warne
Barbara Flynn ..... Helen Potter
Bill Paterson ..... Rupert Potter
Matyelok Gibbs ..... Miss Wiggin
Lloyd Owen ..... William Heelis
Anton Lesser ..... Harold Warne
David Bamber ..... Fruing Warne
Phyllida Law ..... Mrs. Warne
Patricia Kerrigan ..... Fiona
Lucy Boynton ..... Young Beatrix
Oliver Jenkins ..... Young Bertram
Justin McDonald ..... Young Heelis
Judith Barker ..... Hilda

Synopsis:

In 1902, in London, the spinster Beatrix Potter lives with her bourgeois parents. Her snobbish mother Helen Potter had introduced several bachelors to Beatriz until she was twenty years old but she turned them all down. Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals and making up stories about them since she was a child but her parents has never recognized her as an artist. One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a print house and the rookie publisher Norman Warne is delighted with her tales and publishes her first children's book. The successful selling leads Norman to publish two other books and Miss Potter becomes the best friend of his single sister Millie Warne. Sooner they fall in love with each other but Helen does not accept that her daughter marries a 'trader'. However, Beatrix's father Rupert Potter proposes that his daughter spends the summer with his wife and him in their country house in Lake District and if she is still interested in Norman after the summertime, he would bless their marriage. When Miss Potter stops receiving letters from Norman, she is disappointed. Until the day she receives a letter from Millie explaining what had happened to Norman.

This biopic follows Beatrix Potter's rise to being the most successful children's author of all time. Despite delighting generations of children with her books, she kept her own story locked carefully away. The film reveals how she developed her artistic and story-telling abilities from a young age and rebelled against the conventions of the time by refusing to marry for the sake of it. Her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was a publishing phenomenon and led to a captivating romance with her publisher Norman Warne.

Inspired by a true story set in Victorian England, a tale charting the life of Beatrix Potter, a literary phenomenon of the early 20th century. At a time when most young women of her class aimed only to make a good marriage, Beatrix became an iconic figure, swimming quietly, but with great fortitude, against the tide. She created a series of books and characters that are as beloved today as they were a hundred years ago, and since their publication they have never been out of print.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 February, 2012.

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