Water for Elephants

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Jim Norton, Paul Schneider, Mark Povinelli, Hal Holbrook, Stephen Taylor, Richard Brake, Scott MacDonald, Ken Foree, Sam Anderson, James Frain, Brad Greenquist, John Aylward, Donna W. Scott

Director: Francis Lawrence

Rating: NR

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Release date: April 22nd, 2011

Synopsis:

Story follows Jacob Jankowski, who is about to take his final exams in veterinary medicine at Cornell when his parents are killed in a car accident. He drops out and joins Benzini Brothers, a second-rate traveling circus trying to survive during the Depression.

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