![]() ![]() We Bought a Zoo was a sizable hit with a touchy-feely director on form, you can’t go wrong with kids, animals and well-delivered sentiment. ![]() Even the curmudgeonly inspector (John Michael Higgins) turns out to be a goodie after all. The adventure puts father back in contact with his kids, and his own grief romance blooms with Kelly (Scarlett Johansson) and the zoo is gradually put up to code for a feel-good finale. ![]() Matt Damon plays Benjamin Mee, a widower who decants his two kids to an abandoned zoo, one which needs a bit of fixing-up. Crowe noted that the film they came from, Jerry Maguire, would not have existed in its current form if it wasn’t for a writers strike either way, in 2022, a comeback would be welcome.Ģ010’s We Bought A Zoo saw Crowe contribute a script re-write as a gun for hire although this wasn’t a passion project, the genial, bitter-sweet flavour could only be him. Sure, you can point to flops like Elizabethtown and Aloha as knocking him of the A list, but most directors alternate hits and flops Crowe was a champion of old-school Hollywood nous, making original films with great soundtracks that made an indelible impact on pop culture phrases like ‘You had me at hello’ and Show me the money’ have taken on a life far beyond their original context. WTF ever happened to Cameron Crowe? The writer/director was a toast of Hollywood with films like Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, and yet we’ve not seen a feature film from him in years. ![]()
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