30th Anniversary Film Festival: Miss Potter (PG)

20th July 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

2007 – Miss Potter (PG)

Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) overcomes many obstacles in her quest to become a writer, including a domineering mother and the chauvinism prevalent in Victorian England. She falls in love with her publisher, Norman Warne (Ewan McGregor), yet his marriage proposal and a subsequent tragedy change her life forever.

Starring: Renée Zellweger; Ewan McGregor; Emily Watson; Barbara Flynn; Bill Paterson

Directed by Chris Noonan

Running Time 92 minutes

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Partially filmed in locations in Cumbria. Beatrix Potter lived the last 30 years of her life in Near Sawrey, Cumbria.