Water for Elephants (film)
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| Directed by | Francis Lawrence |
| Produced by | Gil Netter Erwin Stoff Andrew R. Tennenbaum |
| Screenplay by | Richard LaGravenese |
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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen |
| Starring |
Reese Witherspoon Robert Pattinson Christoph Waltz Hal Holbrook |
| Music by | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography | Rodrigo Prieto |
| Edited by | Alan Edward Bell |
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Fox 2000 Pictures
3 Arts Entertainment Flashpoint Entertainment Dune Entertainment Ingenious Media Big Screen Productions |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Polish |
| Budget | $38 million |
| Box office | $117.1 million |
Water for Elephants is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Francis Lawrence. Richard LaGravenese wrote the screenplay, which was based on Sara Gruen's 2006 novel of the same name. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz.
The film premiered in New York and Los Angeles for a limited release on April 15, 2011, then went into wide release in the United States and Canada on April 22, 2011. It received mixed to positive reviews from film critics; it garnered a "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based upon aggregated reviews, and a rating of "mixed or average reviews" at Metacritic.
Charlie O'Brien, the proprietor of a small traveling circus, encounters an elderly man named Jacob Jankowski, who is separated from his nursing home group. The two strike up a conversation and Jacob reveals he had a career in the circus business and was present during one of the most infamous circus disasters of all time, the 1944 Hartford circus fire and the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wreck.
Jankowski tells his story to O'Brien, starting in 1931 when he was a 23-year-old veterinary medicine student at Cornell. During his final exam, he is informed that his parents were killed in a car accident. His father has left huge debts, and the bank was foreclosing on Jacob's home. Feeling there is no point in returning to school, and having no home to go to, he jumps onto a passing train where he meets a kind old man named Camel.
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