![]() The title, by the way, is spoken twice by Mee's 7-year-old daughter, Rosie, played by the beguiling Maggie Elizabeth Jones, whose scene-stealing cuteness proves to be one of the most likable things in a movie that's all about being liked. You want sunshine and uplift, see We Bought a Zoo. ![]() You want the tough, spiky version of virtually the same story, see The Descendants. Happily, writer-director Cameron Crowe keeps the most mawkish manipulations to a minimum in a movie that moves through its requisite stages - grief, acceptance, zany sights, gags and healing - with smooth, entertaining efficiency. Based on the real-life Mee's actual memoir, We Bought a Zoo contains all the ingredients of a maudlin, treacly weeper (Dozens of Marleys and Three Mees). ![]() In We Bought a Zoo, Matt Damon plays Benjamin Mee, a widower who's been alone with his kids for six months when he decides to upend their lives and buy a broken-down zoo in Southern California. ![]()
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