Miss Potter

Miss Potter is a 2006 EnglishAmerican biographical fiction family drama film directed by Chris Noonan. It is a biographical film of childrens author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, and combines stories from her own life with animated sequences featuring characters from her stories, such as Peter Rabbit. Scripted by Richard Maltby, Jr., the director of the Tonywinning Broadway revue, Fosse, the film stars Rene Zellweger in the title role Ewan McGregor as her publisher and fianc, Norman Warne and Lloyd Owen as solicitor William Heelis. Emily Watson stars as Warnes sister, Millie. Lucy Boynton also stars as the young Beatrix Potter. It was filmed in St. Peters Square Hammersmith, Cecil Court, Osterley Park, Covent Garden, the Isle of Man, Scotland and the Lake District. Miss Potter was released onDecember 2006 so that the film could compete for the 2007 Academy Awards. The film was intended to be released generally onJanuary 2007, but Variety.com reported that the Weinstein Company had decided to push a wider release date until after the Academy Awards onFebruary 2007. The date seemed to fluctuate a number of times, but the Weinstein Company website ultimately listed its release date asMarch. The film received generally positive reviews and earned Zellweger her sixth Golden Globe nomination.

When Norman Warne arrives, Beatrix makes decisions about her finished book, regarding size, colour and price. Norman admits he has never done anything like this before but has given her book a great deal of thought. Beatrix realises what the Warne brothers have done regarding her and Norman but they become determined to prove them wrong. Norman takes Beatrix to the printer, and she has her drawings reproduced and copies of her book sold. Thrilled, Beatrix and Norman visit the Warne family, where Beatrix meets the wheelchairbound but lovely Mrs. Warne, and Normans sister, Amelia, nicknamed Millie. Millie has decided that she and Beatrix are going to be friends and is overjoyed that Beatrix is a spinster, as is Millie, who believes men to be nothing but bores. The family befriends Beatrix, yet Helen Potter, Beatrixs socialclimbing mother, is unhappy about her daughter spending time in the company of tradesmen.When she returns home, Beatrix and Helen bicker about Beatrixs stubborn decision not to marry. Beatrix reminds her mother of the book she wrote, and her mother retorts she believes the venture will fail. However, the book sales are very successful and copies are displayed in many store windows. Even Beatrixs father, Rupert, buys a copy along with friends at the Reform Club. Encouraged by this success and her fathers support, Beatrix invites Norman and Millie to her familys Christmas party, despite her mothers misgivings. At the party everyone enjoys themselves and Beatrix shows Norman a story she is writing especially for him, The Rabbits Christmas Party. She shows him a drawing from the story and shows him her studio where she writes and draws. Miss Wiggin falls asleep from too much brandy a generous portion of which had been added to her coffee cup by Norman, and Norman plucks up the courage to propose to Beatrix. Mrs. Potter interrupts before Beatrix can reply, and they join the other guests in the drawing room. Beatrix confides in Millie about Norman proposi

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