WHO’S IN IT?
Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting), Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger), Bronte Carmichael (Darkest Hour), Mark Gatiss (Victor Frankenstein), Orton O’Brien (Making Noise Quietly), Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh), Brad Garrett (Finding Nemo), Toby Jones (The Hunger Games), Nick Mohammed (The Sense of an Ending), Peter Capaldi (Paddington), Sophie Okonedo (The Secret Life of Bees), Wyatt Dean Hall (Winnie the Pooh)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Marc Forster (Finding Neverland), director; Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) and Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures), writers; Kristin Burr (Ice Princess) and Brigham Taylor (The Jungle Book), producers; Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), composer; Matthias Koenigswieser (After the Fall), cinematographer; Matt Chesse (Monster’s Ball), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Christopher Robin (McGregor), the young boy who used to play in the Hundred Acre Woods with his plush friends Winnie the Pooh (Cummings), Piglet (Mohammed), Tigger (Cummings), Eeyore (Garrett), Owl (Jones), Rabbit (Capaldi), Kanga (Okonedo) and Roo (Hall), is now an adult and working a menial job to support his wife Evelyn (Atwell) and daughter Madeline (Carmichael), but has also lost all sense of imagination. However, he receives a wake-up call when Pooh and his friends suddenly re-enter Christopher’s life…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
The beloved stories of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin explore a whole new chapter, one where reality has kicked in and imagination thoroughly needs to be reintroduced, all of which is made possible in this enchanting and sweet live-action/CGI hybrid.
