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Certificate PG

Cast Matt Damon Scarlett Johansson Thomas Hayden Church Elle Fanning Colin Ford

Directors Cameron Crowe

Screenwriters Cameron Crowe Aline Brosh McKenna

Running Time 124 minutes

We Bought A Zoo
Where Matt Damon becomes Terry Nutkins

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Plot
Six months after losing his wife, Benjamin (Damon) quits his job as an LA newspaper man and takes his two kids (Ford, Maggie Elizabeth Jones) off to live in a ramshackle country house with a run-down zoo attached. Despite knowing little about zoos, Benjamin decides to bring it back to life, with the help of unpaid zookeeper Kelly (Johansson).

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