Miss Potter(2006)

Production Year:2006

Directed By:Chris NOONAN

Written and Screenplay By:Richard MALTBY JR.

Produced By: Chris NOONAN

Main Cast:Renee ZELLWEGER,Evan McGREGOR,Bill PATTERSON,Emily WATSON

Preview of the Movie: It’s the story of English children books writer Helen Beatrice Potter.Potter is different from the other young ladies around her.She has never obsessed with marriage and she tries to improve her writing skill.Against her parent’s insistences about marriage she never marries till she became a thirty two.She always works on her stories.She finishes writing and illustrating her first children story book and goes to a publisher to publish it.The publisher is Norman Warne who is one and only love of Potter’s life.They meet like that and their love starts slowly but deeply.Potter’s family makes it difficult for them to be together.The movie includes the hardness and imposibilities of early England ages for young women.Not only about their professional lives and also about their emotional relations.

Info about the Movie:Helen Beatrice Potter is one of the most important and famous English writer of history.She was a writer,illustrator,mycologist and also a conservationist.Her most well-known book is “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”.Potter was a feminist person because of her parent’s attitudes through young ladies “missions”of their lives.She always refused to be an only a wife or mother.She wanted achieve things in her life.Just same as Jane Austen who is an another British writer of the same century.They are very similar about their dreams,aims,parent’s approaches and unfortunate love lives.

Awards that the Movie Won:

2007 Australian Peforming Rights Association Awards-Feature Film Score of the Year “Nigel Westlake”

2007 Heartland Film Festival-Truly Moving Sound Award-Best Original Song Written for Film “Katie MELUA,Nigel WESTLAKE,Mike BATT and Richard MALTBY JR.”  For the song “When You Taught Me How to Dance”

Awards that the Movie Nominated for:

2007 Saturn Award-Best Actress “Renee ZELLWEGER”

2007 Golden Globe Awards-Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture/Musical or Comedy “Renee ZELLWEGER”

2007 Young Artist Awards-Best Performance in a Feature Film/Supporting Young Actress “Lucy BOYNTON”

2007 World Soundtrack Awards-Best Original Song Written for Film “Katie MELUA,Nigel WESTLAKE,Mike BATT and Richard MALTBY JR.”  For the song “When You Taught Me How to Dance”