Who's Involved:
Release Date:
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Netflix
Plot: What's the story about?
In 2013, Samantha Bloom (two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts), her husband Cameron (The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln) and their three sons left their home in Australia for a holiday in Thailand. While enjoying a view, Sam fell off of a rooftop due to what was later determined to be a rotted railing...breaking her vertebrae in two places. Paralyzed from the chest down, Sam — a lifelong outdoorswoman, surfer, and traveler —was unrecognizable to herself, and spent long months in a depression that made her question who she could be in the world and in her own family.
A year later, her children brought home a wounded baby magpie they found. Warily eyeing the black-and-white bird the kids affectionately named “Penguin,” Sam bonded with the household’s new member, beginning a process of emotional healing that surprised her husband and sons, her mother (Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver), and herself. Penguin Bloom tells the amazing true story of renewal that occurred when a woman whose life seemed shattered found hope and purpose in her family’s love — and in a bird on its own journey of recovery.
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Who stars in Penguin Bloom: Cast List
Adore, The Impossible
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (series), Love Actually
Equals, Life of the Party
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Soul (re-release)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Who's making Penguin Bloom: Crew List
A look at the Penguin Bloom behind-the-scenes crew and production team.
Director
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Screenwriters
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Producers
Emma CooperBruna Papandrea
Naomi Watts
Reese Witherspoon
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Production: What we know about Penguin Bloom?
Key Facts
- Based on the Australian book, "Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family."
Filming Timeline
- 2020 - December: The film was set to Completed status.
- 2016 - December: The film was set to Development status.
Once a screenwriter is on-board, the project is expected to shoot in Australia sometime in 2017.
Penguin Bloom Release Date: When was the film released?
Penguin Bloom was a Netflix release in 2021 on Wednesday, January 27, 2021.