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It has to be in Red Box by now.īenjamin Mee (Matt Damon) is still struggling with the loss of his wife. He's got some real relocation issues, but in time he comes around. I'm sure up the family tree you'll find them related if you do a genealogical trace for both. Young Colin Ford as Damon's son is well cast and a lot of that is due to him really resembling Damon at an age before he was playing Will Hunting. She gets Damon out of widower funk as well. Helping Damon out is his staff that includes Scarlett Johansson as the zoo keeper. And the responsibility that the Mee family comes to love and rejoice in. It's a lesson that Damon's character Benjamin Mee learns and while it would be easy to dump the animals to a euthanistic fate probably, it would be ducking a responsibility. Zoos are a lot of fun, but when man takes the animals from the wild he assumes their responsibility. Instinct tells Damon to move in and try and save the animals there. The house is on a large piece of property which contains a zoo. So the family Mee packs up kit and kaboodle and moves out to the country where he buys a ramshackle country estate type of dwelling. All this because Damon wants to get away from all memories associated with his late wife. It turns out to be a learning and healing experience all around. Rather We Bought A Zoo since it becomes a project for the whole Mee family that includes his son and daughter. Matt Damon stars in a wonderful family film where he plays a widower dad who buys a zoo on life support. Overall, a very nice film.one that you will no doubt enjoy. As far as older kids and teens go, the problems between the son and father will actually work because they seemed realistic.as will the adults. While small kids will probably care nothing for the plot involving the dead wife, there's a lot of cute stuff and lovely animals. He sells their home and moves them to the country.where their home ALSO comes with a small zoo! The rest of the story concerns Mee trying to find a way to rehab the zoo and get it ready for reopening AND Mee trying to somehow form a much healthier relationship with his son.by working through his own baggage related to his wife's untimely death.
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But HOW he addresses this is weird.something you'll never expect any SANE person would do. Try as he might, he's having problems.particularly with his son who is an up and coming juvenile delinquent. When the story begins, Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) is a widower whose wife died and left him with two kids to raise. Part of it might just be that the basic story is based on real people.and that sure didn't hurt the movie. But in the case of "We Bought the Zoo" I could see folks of all ages enjoying this picture. Often when I see the term 'family movie', it's actually NOT referring to a film the entire family will love but a film which is designed to appeal to kids.