 Miss Potter
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson, Lloyd Owen
Directed by: Chris Noonan
Screenplay: Richard Maltby, Jr.
Release: December 29, 2006
Running Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for brief mild language.
Studio: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
 Domestic: $3,005,605 (8.6%)
Foreign: $32,072,636 (91.4%)
Total: $35,078,241 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: The life of Beatrix Potter was the most enchanting tale of all.
Biography of children's author Beatrix Potter, including how she overcame a domineering mother and the chauvinism of Victorian England to become a best-selling author.
Beatrix Potter was 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. She was also a distinguished painter and – had she been a man – her botanical drawings would have been snapped up by the Royal Horticultural Society at Kew Gardens.
In addition, by the time she died in 1943, Beatrix Potter had purchased vast swathes of the Lake District that she left to the then fledgling British conservation trust, the National Trust. That so much of this glorious countryside that inspired her, remains as it was in Beatrix Potter’s day for others to enjoy, is her bequest to the nation. This is her story...
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