Goodbye Christopher Robin
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| Directed by | Simon Curtis |
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| Music by | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | Ben Smithard |
| Edited by | Victoria Boydell |
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| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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107 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5.2 million |
Goodbye Christopher Robin is a 2017 British historical drama film about the lives of Winnie-the-Pooh creator A. A. Milne and his family, especially his son Christopher Robin. It was directed by Simon Curtis and written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Simon Vaughan, and stars Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, and Kelly Macdonald. The film premiered in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2017.
The film begins with A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) – nicknamed "Blue" by his friends and family – and his wife Daphne (Margot Robbie) receiving a distressing telegram at their home. It then changes timeframe to a few decades earlier with Blue fighting in the Battle of the Somme, then resuming his life in England while suffering shell shock with occasional flashbacks to his battle experiences, and having a child with Daphne. She was hoping for a girl, and is disappointed to instead have a son, whom they name Christopher Robin Milne but call "Billy". They hire a nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald) who is given primary responsibility for raising the child.
Blue is having difficulty resuming his writing – he wants to draft a compelling treatise against war – and relocates the family to a house in the country with wooded acreage. Daphne resents the move, and at one point returns to London for an extended period. When Olive takes leave to care for her dying mother, Blue and Billy (Will Tilston) are left to fend for themselves for a time. Reluctantly at first, Blue takes Billy along on walks in the woods, and begins making up stories about the boy's adventures with the stuffed animals the parents have bought for him along the way.
Blue invites his illustrator friend Ernest to join them at the house, and together they develop the Winnie-the-Pooh books, which become a huge success. Daphne returns to the house to help manage their newfound celebrity. As "Christopher Robin", Billy makes frequent public appearances he finds confusing and frustrating. Olive becomes engaged and resigns, but admonishes Blue and Daphne for what they are putting Billy through. Blue resolves to stop writing about the boy and his imaginary friends, and ends Billy's publicity activities, instead enrolling him at a boarding school.
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