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Water for Elephants, 2011

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, James Frain

Directed by: Francis Lawrence

Written by: Richard LaGravenese, Sara Gruen

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 122 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:6.9

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The mood of Water for Elephants is bittersweet, emotional, and stylized. The plot centers around forbidden love, the life of a performer, and falling in love. It is a drama, romance, and period movie. Stylistically, Water for Elephants has a Hollywood tone and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Water for Elephants takes place, at least partly, at a circus. The setting is the USA. It happens in the 1920s and in the 1930s. Water for Elephants is based on a book. It is especially suggested for a girls' night and a date night.

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"When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford."