Penguin Bloom Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

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.

Drama Adaptation True Story

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  Naomi Watts

  The Friend, Emmanuelle

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  Andrew Lincoln

  Love Actually, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (series)

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  Jacki Weaver

  Parkland, Bird Box

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  Rachel House

  Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Moana 2

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  Gia Carides

  In Your Dreams, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

• L
  Leeanna Walsman

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  Lisa Hensley

Who is making Penguin Bloom – Crew List

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Producers

Emma Cooper
Bruna Papandrea
Naomi Watts
Reese Witherspoon

Production – What we know about the Penguin Bloom

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Key Facts

• Based on the Australian book, "Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family."

Movie Filming Timeline: Production Status Updates

Dec 2020

Completed

Changed Penguin Bloom movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

Dec 2016

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. Once a screenwriter is on-board, the project is expected to shoot in Australia sometime in 2017.

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