As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college.
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We Bought a Zoo
2011
Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.
124 min
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