Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

We bought a zoo [videorecording] / LBI Entertainment / Vinyl Films production ; produced by Julie Yorn, Cameron Crowe, Rick Yorn ; screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna and Cameron Crowe ; directed by Cameron Crowe.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2012.

Description:

1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A memoir by Benjamin Mee, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG; for language and some thematic elements CHV rating: PG; for coarse language OFRB rating: PG; for language.

Subjects:

Zoos -- England -- Drama.

Zoo directors -- England -- Drama.

Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- Drama.

Zoológicos -- Inglaterra -- Teatro.

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Biographical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.