Miss Potter

2006 • 93 minutes

About this movie

Inspired by a true story set in Victorian England, a tale charting the life of Beatrix Potter--a literary phenomenon of the early 20th century. At a time when most young women of her class aimed only to make a good marriage, Beatrix became an iconic figure, swimming quietly, but with great fortitude, against the tide. She created a series of books and characters that are as beloved today as they were a hundred years ago, and since their publication they have never been out of print. She was also a distinguished painter and--had she been a man--her botanical drawings would have been snapped up by the Royal Horticultural Society at Kew Gardens. In addition, by the time she died in 1943, Beatrix Potter had purchased vast swathes of the Lake District that she left to the then fledgling British conservation trust, the National Trust. That so much of this glorious countryside that inspired her, remains as it was in Beatrix Potter's day for others to enjoy, is her bequest to the nation.

Ratings and reviews

Sweet movie! If you can avoid Google play watch it anywhere else! Add constantly interrupting in the middle of a sentence. No thought or consideration at all for the watcher.

Sweet and charming. Captures the mood and personality of the woman who wrote the wonderful stories we read to our children and grandchildren.

It's a great movie must see