Miss Potter Movie Stars Renee Zellweger

Children's Book Author and Illustrator of Peter Rabbit Portrayed

Jan 12, 2009 Christine Nyholm

Beatrix Potter,children's book writer and illustrator and creator of charming Peter Rabbit tales is portrayed in bio-pic by Renee Zellweger, co-staring Ewan McGregor.

Miss Potter is the charming story of children’s author Beatrix Potter, author of the popular Peter Rabbit children’s books. Miss Potter was an unconventional woman from a wealthy family during the Victorian era. Renee Zellweger is warm and enchanting as writer and illustrator Miss Potter. Ewan McGregor portrays publisher and sweetheart Norman Warne in this enchanting biopic.

Miss Potteris a beautifully filmed movie, with many scenes looking like they could have come out of one of her popular children’s books. The characters portray the Victorian era of England in costuming and attitude.

Miss Potter Plot Summary

When Beatrix Potter (Renee Zellweger) presents her children’s book idea for Peter Rabbit to publishers, she is surprised and delighted when they want to publish her book. Leaving, she gets into a horse driven carriage and joyfuly tells the drivers to drive fast through all the parks of London.

Norman Warne (Ewan McGregor) is the younger brother of the publishers. His older brothers give him the project because they believe it will be a failure. He had been pestering them for a project and they just wanted to give him something to do.. Potter and Mr.Warne realize that his brothers believe the book will fail, and collaborate to prove them wrong.

Beatrix Potter and her family spend their summers in the Lakes Region in Northwestern England, where she observed nature and drew pictures of the beautiful natural surroundings. When she drew her illustrations the distinctive pictures literally leaped out of the page at her, as if the characters on the page were real beings. Indeed, her imaginary friends were real characters to her.

Mrs. Potter is disapproving of her daughter’s vocation, as she wanted Beatrix to settle down and marry a respectable man with good social standing. Her parent’s choices of suitors left Beatrix cold, so she had already become a spinster. Her father had aspirations of being an artist when he was young, but became a respectable lawyer instead, a vocation that he did not have a passion for. Her father encouraged Beatrix’s artistic side, much to her mother’s consternation.

Miss Potter and Norman Warne fall in love and become secretly engaged, making her parents unhappy, as they did not approve of a marriage to a tradesman. Still they agree to give their blessings to a marriage if she will summer at the Lakes with them, hoping she will change their mind. Sadly, Norman dies in London while she is away.

Miss Potter’s wealthy parents had threatened to disinherit her at one point, so she checked her finances with her publisher and was delighted to learn that she was a wealthy woman in her own right.

After Norman’s death, Miss Potter decided to buy her own property, Hilltop Farm, in the Lakes Country of Northwestern England. Miss Potter became a conservationist who started buying up farms to save them from development. Eventually she married a lawyer in the Lake Country.

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) published many illustrated children’s books in the early 1900’s, including; The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and more. Her books were published between 1902 and 1930, with her last publication being The Tale of Little Pig Robinson.

Beatrix Potter purchased 14 farms in the Lakes Country region of England. When she passed away she left 14 farms and 4,000 acres to the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest of Natural Beauty.

Cast of Miss Potter

Renee Zellweger as Beatrix Potter
Ewan McGregor as Norman Wame
Emily Watson as Millie Warme
Barbara Flynn as Helen Potter
Beill Paterson as Rupert Potter
Matyelok Gibbs as Miss Wiggin
Anton Lesser as Harold Warne
David Bamber as Fruing Warne
Phyllida Law as Mrs. Warne
Patricia Kerrigan as Fiona
Lucy Boynton as Young Beatrix
Oliver Jenkins as Young Bertram
Justin McDonald as Young Heelis
Judith Barker as Hilda
Director Chris Noonan
Writer Richard Maltby Jr.

Miss Potter is an enchanting movie that portrays historic Victorian England and the story of a fascinating woman and well worth watching.

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