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Miss Potter

Miss Potter (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 125
Fresh: 82 | Rotten: 43

A charming biopic with that maintains its sweetness even in sadder moments.

54

Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 18

A charming biopic with that maintains its sweetness even in sadder moments.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 327,439

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Movie Info

The true story of the woman who created some of the most beloved characters in children's literature comes to the screen in this drama leavened with elements of comedy and romance. Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) is a imaginative but gently eccentric woman living in the socially and intellectually confining circumstances of Victorian England. Potter's wealthy parents are eager for her to marry a successful man and settle down, but she has ideas of her own, and has been writing and illustrating

PG, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama

Jun 19, 2007

$2.9M

MGM

Cast

All Critics (129) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (85) | Rotten (44) | DVD (14)

Miss Potter is as seamless, comfortable and tidy as a Peter Rabbit story, all scones and biscuits, quietly punctuated by tolerable naughtiness.

March 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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One of those films that commits few egregious errors, but scales few real heights. There is nothing either terribly wrong or keenly right about it. It's tidy, I suppose.

March 9, 2007 Comment
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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The film offers scant insight into the forces that inspired Potter's phenomenally successful career.

March 8, 2007 Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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If the source material is soft, the film then takes another punch with the casting of Renée Zellweger in the title role. She overflows with tics and twitches that make the author seem vaguely deranged.

March 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Comment
Arizona Republic
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With Miss Potter, Renee Zellweger has won back that precious thing that stardom rips away and the tabloids won't let you reclaim: her charm.

March 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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A grave disappointment.

January 16, 2007 Comment
New Yorker
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Miss Potter is too well crafted to actually be bad, but it's too light to be better than good. An entertaining trifle, but a trifle nonetheless.

April 8, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

The movie is made to measure for mothers, aunts and grandmothers who would share Potter's books, such as "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," with tikes of any generation.

April 25, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

A Beatrix Potter biopic: So much more than just cute and fuzzy bunnies.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | Comment

More about social pressure than Peter Rabbit.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

While it cannot sustain the fairytale enchantment of something like Finding Neverland, Miss Potter is, nonetheless, a worthy and sweet, middle-of-the-road biopic.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | Comment
BrandonFibbs.com

There's nothing inherently wrong with MISS POTTER. It's just a throwback to the biopics of the 1930s and 40s and in some ways it may seem progressive to contemporary audiences.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | Comment
Murphy's Movie Reviews

Evokes the emerging Victorian era bourgeois female imagination amid crushing containment and defiant awakening.

July 3, 2007 Full Review Source: WBAI Web Radio | Comment
WBAI Web Radio

Much like star Renée Zellweger's portrayal of its famous title character, Miss Potter is a strange, split-personality kind of thing.

June 25, 2007 Full Review Source: IGN Movies | Comment
IGN Movies

Portraying a real-life hero can be a tough assignment. But Zellweger breezes through the role, flashing her puckish grin, talking in her soft, breathy voice and giving very human face to one of the most beloved figures of English letters.

June 1, 2007 Comment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

For fans of Potter's work, "Miss Potter" is indispensable. But even viewers with the haziest memories of those unique little books will enjoy spending 90 minutes inside her idyllic world.

May 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Director Chris Noonan ('Babe') gives us a story with the right balance of humor, pathos and romance.

May 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
Laramie Movie Scope

Deftly navigating the line between the sublime and the saccharine ...

April 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

A film of no little charm, Chris Noonan's Miss Potter never quite gets out of 'Biopic Basic' mode despite occasional murmurings of a desire to be something more.

April 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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Audience Reviews for Miss Potter

Charming drama about children's author Beatrice Potter's life. An intelligent child who has great talent for drawing and writing about creatures. She becomes a successful author in a stuffy Victorian England. She is secretly engaged to her editor and first love who becomes ill. She gains independence through her

June 24, 2007
thmtsang
Candy Rose

Super Reviewer

Beatrix Potter! Yay! Five stars Renée Zellweger, no stars, They must've cast around for a good actress and then when no one called . . . Read the Potter stories and forget this borat. How long? How long? How long can Zellweger get acting jobs? Freakin A unbelievable . . .

November 20, 2010
binky013

Super Reviewer

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