We Bought a Zoo

We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 American biographical family 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. The film also stars Scarlett Johansson, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Elle Fanning, Colin Ford, and John Michael Higgins.

This article is about the 2011 film. For the book by the same name, see We Bought a Zoo (book).
We Bought a Zoo
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCameron Crowe
Screenplay byAline Brosh McKenna
Cameron Crowe
Based onWe Bought a Zoo
by Benjamin Mee
Produced byJulie Yorn
Marc Gordon
Cameron Crowe
Starring
CinematographyRodrigo Prieto
Edited byMark Livolsi
Music byJónsi
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • December 12, 2011 (2011-12-12) (Ziegfeld Theatre)
  • December 21, 2011 (2011-12-21) (United States)
Running time
124 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million
Box office$120.1 million

We Bought A Zoo was released in the United States on December 21, 2011 by 20th Century Fox. The film earned $120.1 million on a $50 million budget. We Bought a Zoo was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 3, 2012 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Dartmoor Zoological Park (originally Dartmoor Wildlife Park), on which the film is based, is a 33-acre zoological garden located near the village of Sparkwell, Devon, England.

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