Penguin Bloom Movie Updates

Fri., Jan. 8, 2021

• added Lisa Hensley as actor to movie credits
• added Leeanna Walsman as actor to movie credits
• added Gia Carides as actor to movie credits
• added Rachel House as actor to movie credits
• added a poster to the photo gallery
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• added photos to the photos gallery
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• added Official Trailer to movie trailers & videos
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• set the MPAA rating to NR
• added a poster to the photo gallery
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• changed the US film release date from TBA to January 27, 2021
• set film release to Netflix
• added a synopsis

• 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 roof... show all top 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.

• added Netflix Originals as a distributor
• added Jacki Weaver as actor to movie credits
• added Andrew Lincoln as actor to movie credits
• changed the movie production status to Completed

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Tue., Dec. 13, 2016

from Variety

Reese Witherspoon and Naomi Watts to Produce Adaptation of ‘Penguin Bloom&rsquo...

Reese Witherspoon, Naomi Watts and Bruna Papandrea have landed the rights to the Australian book Penguin Bloom.

• added Pacific Standard Productions as a production company
• added drama as a genre
• added "Penguin The Magpie" as an also known as title
• added Emma Cooper as producer to credits
• added true story as genre
• added a synopsis
• Based on a true story, the film revolves around a unique little bird that saves a family spirits after the mother was paralyzed in an accident.
• added Bruna Papandrea as producer to credits