Veterinary school student Jacob takes a job in a traveling circus, meets and falls in love with Marlena, a star performer as well as the ringmaster's wife. They soon overcome all odds to find lifelong love.
17 May 1984, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
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22 September 1978, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
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12 March 1966, Bronx, New York, USA
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June 23, 2013
This movie doesn't have half the imagination of even the most subpar circus and, all told, I think it even has fewer elephants.
May 03, 2011
'Water for Elephants' has charm, and this more grown up role suits Pattinson more than the histrionics of last year's 'Remember Me'.
May 02, 2011
The movie rather embarrassingly sells chastity in the midst of what feels like a lawless situation. It's handsomely mounted but timid.
October 07, 2011
Supporting characters are too hastily sketched in, serving only to further the unsmooth course of true love.
April 23, 2011
The great intangible of chemistry isn't present, making Water for Elephants seem longer and slower than one might hope.
September 20, 2012
"Water for Elephants" is a surprisingly good film that once again shows that first impressions aren't everything.
January 30, 2012
Effectively hits the right emotional beats with crucially the right amount of restraint.
January 11, 2013
Whatever romance Gruen summoned forth from this rough and tumble world of show people living by their own laws in a traveling, self-contained world of poverty and cruelty, director Francis Lawrence has hacked and ground it off.
April 21, 2013
The leads lack chemistry and the movie has a very cookie-cutter love story that was far too predictable.
December 29, 2011
I love it when a film surprises me.
May 06, 2011
Water for Elephants may not be the best show on earth, but it's still quite a show.
April 22, 2011
Isn't it OK, once in a while, just to enjoy the spectacle of two beautiful people kissing in a train car in the shadow of an elephant?
