We Bought a Zoo is a transparently cloying effort by director Cameron Crowe, but Matt Damon makes for a sympathetic central character.
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We Bought a Zoo

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Movie Info
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Director -
Cameron Crowe -
Producer -
Julie Yorn , Cameron Crowe , Rick Yorn -
Screenwriter -
Aline Brosh McKenna , Cameron Crowe -
Distributor -
20th Century Fox -
Production Co -
Dune , Twentieth Century Fox , Vinyl Films -
Rating -
PG (Some Thematic Elements|Language) -
Genre -
Kids & Family , Comedy , Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Dec 23, 2011, Wide -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Jan 1, 2014 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$75.6M -
Runtime -
2h 4m -
Sound Mix -
SDDS , Dolby Digital