Benjamin Mee Tells His Inspiring Story Of Reviving A Dilapidated Zoo With His Family After His Wife's Death ...

But the feature-length film will be the first time the extraordinary story of how the Mee family came to acquire the zoo and its 200 animals – and the difficulties they faced after Benjamin's ...

"We Bought a Zoo" very loosely adapts a 2008 memoir by Benjamin Mee, who worked with his family to purchase and resurrect a decrepit zoo in rural England while dealing with a host of logistical ...

Hundreds of exotic animals are given a new lease on life when Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) purchases the dilapidated zoo in which they reside and moves his family onto the property. This white ...

We Bought a Zoo is based on a true story, and book of the same name by Briton Benjamin Mee. The real Mee bought and moved into a 16-hectare zoo in Devon, England, with his wife, two children ...

Late one afternoon in October 2006 Benjamin Mee was sitting in the kitchen of his new family home, contemplating a list of jobs, when his brother ran in shouting, 'A big cat has escaped. This is ...

The real story behind film We Bought a Zoo When Benjamin Mee moved his young family into their very own zoo in 2006, he didn't think life could get any better.

Fox has purchased the big screen rights to Benjamin Mee's memoir We Bought A Zoo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Zoo, which was published in September, tells Mee's story as he puts his ...

After six years away from the big screen, director Cameron Crowe returns with “We Bought a Zoo”, an adaptation of Benjamin Mee’s memoir of his family’s efforts to revitalize a Southern ...

Benjamin Mee with his son Milo and daughter Ella at their home, Dartmoor Zoo. Benjamin Mee’s life has been made into a Hollywood movie starring Matt Damon — but the true story is no fairy tale ...