Watching this horrifically twee film is like having your face pushed into a bowl of pot-pourri for 90 minutes in a two-star B&B somewhere in Cumbria.
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01/06/07
Miss Potter (2006)
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Reviews Counted:120
Fresh:79
Rotten:41
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: A charming biopic with that maintains its sweetness even in sadder moments.
Theatrical Release:05-01-2007
Synopsis: Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children with her books. But she kept her own private life locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renee Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Emily Watson, Ewan McGregor, Lloyd Owen
Director: Chris Noonan
Reviews for Miss Potter
It's worthy and beautifully produced, but it feels like a fantasy rather than the truth.
12/18/06
Pitched awkwardly -- neither for children nor cool young adults -- it’s very sweet, very nice and just the thing for a girlie matinée with mum and nan.
01/02/07
Top CriticIts old-fashioned sincerity ultimately proves disarming. Sweet but not cloying, it’s a heartening portrait of goodness surmounting the odds.
01/04/07
Top CriticThe film is a guaranteed tearjerker, but more than that, an uplifting tribute to a single woman's quest for independence that would surely make Bridget Jones blush.
12/30/06
Top CriticThis is an odd film in many ways, but the romantic scenes work brilliantly, thanks to McGregor's genuinely charming performance.
01/04/07
Beautiful, gentile, and oh-so-quaint, but utterly pointless and terminally boring. Zellweger's performance is both strange and misguided.
01/07/07
About halfway through the film, however, it becomes obvious that Miss Potter is lacking a key element of good drama: conflict.
12/29/06
Starts badly and ends badly, but a good, solid hour in the middle is as charming as anything you'll see this holiday season.
12/22/06
A bit paint-by-numbers, not to torture a pun out of all this, but when the story of Beatrix Potter, spinster book author and happenstance feminist, eventually does take shape, it is an emotionally and even politically potent story.
01/04/07
The trailers slant this film as a family adventure despite the fact that it's really more of a traditional live action love story with a dash of animation accents.
01/11/07
A thoroughly pleasant experience.
01/04/07
Renee Zellweger's pretentious and unconvincing portrayal of Beatrix Potter doesn't help much to endear the viewer to the artist.
01/12/07
If a sorcerer could raise Benjamin Bunny and Flopsy Rabbit from the pages of Potter's books and transform them into human females, the creatures likely would favor Renee Zellweger.
03/09/07
The love story is beautifully constructed. There's some sentimentality here, but [director Chris] Noonan is careful not to take it too far and to avoid overplaying the audience's emotional chords.
12/29/06
Miss Potter is as seamless, comfortable and tidy as a Peter Rabbit story, all scones and biscuits, quietly punctuated by tolerable naughtiness.
03/09/07
Miss Potter vividly paints the picture of an inspirational woman who created lovely childhood memories of bedtime stories...
01/05/07
This is an earnest and rather sweet film, and one that will vanish from your mind as soon as the final credits roll. You could bring the children, who might like to know a little bit about the woman who created Peter Rabbit.
01/12/07
A straight-laced fairy tale-style biopic appropriate to the audience for which its message of inspiration is finely attuned.
12/18/06
Even a third-act tragedy can't taint the picture's perpetual cheeriness -- which works fine when Miss Potter functions as a wholesome family film and not so well when it strives for some measure of dramatic heft.
03/15/07
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