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Zoo

2018Movie1 h 36 minPG

77

GreatGoodWatch score

77

GreatGoodWatch score

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Summary

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

Good for

Date night
Family movie night
Friends night

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Fingerprint

Lifts you up.
Warms you up.

Not for scares.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+22)
Critics 88Audiences 66GoodWatch 77
Tomatometer88%
User score7.0
Audience score66%
IMDb6.5
Letterboxd · 890 ratings3.1/5
Box office
6%of its budget back
Budget
$4 M
Worldwide
$232 K
Worldwide it made back $232 K of the $4 M it cost.
Running time
1 h 36 min
A typical length for family movies
typical 9596
Half of all family movies run 88–106 min.
Reach
Streams in 24 countries, rent or buy in 17 more
+14
Released
2018
June 8, 2018
8 years ago
Genres
FamilyWarHistory
Language
English
Original language
Made in
United Kingdom
Ireland
Rated
- PGUnited States
Yes: it's rated PG in the United States for violence, and the viewing guide lists it for kids.
What's in it
ViolenceModerate
Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
Frightening scenesLittle or none
Sex, nudityLittle or none
Dark themesMild
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsDate NightFamily Movie NightFriends NightParty VibeIntergenerationalKidsPartner WatchPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchTeensBackground WatchComfort WatchDrop-in FriendlyPure Escapism
and 19 more
37 people
Directing · 1
Colin McIvor Director, Screenplay
Production · 12
Christopher Figg Executive Producer
Kevin Jackson Executive Producer
Robert Whitehouse Executive Producer
Lisa Lambert Executive Producer
John Leslie Producer, Production Design
Dominic Wright Producer
Camera · 1
Damien Elliott Director of Photography
Editing · 2
Chris Gill Editor
Brian Philip Davis Editor
Sound · 3
Mark Thomas Original Music Composer
Andrew Simon McAllister Music
Will Reade Sound Assistant
Art · 2
Christopher Kelly Art Department Assistant
Jackson Todd Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up · 2
Susan Scott Costume Designer
Clare Ramsey Hair Designer, Makeup Designer

Tropes

Freudian Excusein 2,950 titlesNot so much a psychological thing with regards to Kenneth Pinyan (in fact, most of the people who knew him were fairly certain that he wasn't really a zoophile), but rather, he had suffered an accide…All 14 tropes

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