A Bear Named Winnie

6.7

Canada

Drama Family TV Movie

90 min

2004

Michael Fassbender Stephen Eric McIntyre Robert Huculak Carson Nattrass Rebecca Gibson Emma Campbell Miriam Smith Robert Gauvin Ted Atherton Aaron Ashmore David Suchet Stephen Fry Gil Bellows Joshua J. Ballard

Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration for A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories.