01297cgm a2200241 4500 360739116 TxAuBib 20120411120000.0 120411s2012||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u TxAuBib We bought a zoo [video (DVD)]. Beverly Hills, Calif : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2012. 124 min. ; 1 disc. Starring: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Elle Fanning, John Michael Higgins. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Rated PG. Based on the book by Benjamin Mee. A memoir by Benjamin Mee, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening. 20120411. Zoos England Drama. Zoo directors England Drama. Brain Tumors Patients Drama.