[Zellweger] brings a flinty steel to Potter, a woman with the faraway imagination of an overgrown child who simultaneously has... enormous backbone...
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01/09/07
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
The story really grows on you and it’s very sweet and it’s beautiful to look at.
01/08/07
If the movie is respectful and factually informative, it's also tightly corseted -- in dramatic terms.
01/08/07
It will certainly play well with older audiences and the kind of adolescent girls who draw faces in their O’s.
01/08/07
Feels more lightweight than it should and simultaneously not magical enough.
01/08/07
Beautiful, gentile, and oh-so-quaint, but utterly pointless and terminally boring. Zellweger's performance is both strange and misguided.
01/07/07
The film's wholesome, freshly scrubbed tedium suggests literary history drained of life and preserved in formaldehyde.
01/06/07
If you've enjoyed any of Beatrix Potter's books, you'll immediately warm to seeing her beloved illustrations.
01/05/07
You keep waiting for another Beatrix to break out, to match the giddy passion shown by her bunnies or Amelia, but she does not.
01/05/07
The uncertain rhythms and stresses of the piece suggest that they didn't know whether they were making a romance, a biography or a bedtime story. Miss Potter is all three, of course. And all are very engaging -- and happily G-rated.
01/05/07
All-too-tasteful film, which is apparently aimed at mothers and daughters with far too much time on their hands.
01/05/07
This attractive, superficial stab at biography, with Renée Zellweger in the title role, is more concerned with a lonely woman's quest for acceptance and love than with an author's worldly achievements.
01/05/07
It's a soft-focus picture of a woman who, surely, had a few more hard edges, but it's a thoroughly pleasant escape to another world.
01/05/07
Was Potter really the way Renée Zellweger plays her here? Let's hope so. Dreamy, exquisitely sensitive and yet oddly focused, it's a beautiful characterization.
01/05/07
There is something refreshingly outward-looking and un-divalike about Potter, or maybe it just seems that way after recent biopics about artists Virginia Woolf and Diane Arbus.
01/05/07
The photography is as pretty as a Potter watercolor. The style is as stiff as one of her own tiny hardbound books. Half an hour in, and you start looking about in vain for Farmer MacGregor's shotgun.
01/05/07
The overall effect is a solid one-hour love story followed by a dramatized Wikipedia entry.
01/05/07
Known in the United States for her whimsical books, Potter was an ecological champion in the United Kingdom. The film touches on this, but mostly it's a tender tale about yearning hearts and courageous idealism.
01/05/07
Despite Noonan's balancing social friction and fantasy, Miss Potter entrances and delights throughout. It's a beautifully made fairy tale with roots in reality, and all the more satisfying as a result.
01/05/07
Miss Potter is the first movie to be directed by Chris Noonan since Babe, and it has a similar intelligence and grace. Noonan uses the device of having the illustrated animals offer commentary judiciously.
01/05/07
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