"Water For Elephants" Review by The Community Times

‘Water for Elephants’ a beauty

Sometimes in life, things don’t work out as we planned. What looks like a stroke of bad fortune can still turn out wonderfully later on in life.

So is the story of Jacob Jankowski, played by Robert Pattinson, in “Water for Elephants.”

Even during the Depression year of 1931, Jacob looks like he has a bright future ahead. He is ready to graduate from Ivy League Cornell, and its veterinarian school.

During his final exam, Jacob is interrupted by the horrible news that his parents have died in an automobile accident. He decides not finish school, and he can’t keep his parents home because it has a bank lien on it.

Jacob is broke and destitute. Walking to the next big town to find work, he jumps a train and finds out it’s a travelling circus. This is not the life that Jacob planned for, but he’s game.

The mean, narcissist owner of the circus, August (Christoph Waltz) takes a liking to Jacob and Jacob takes a liking to August’s wife – the beautiful and talented circus performer Marlena (Reese Witherspoon).

Jacob loves her beauty and kindness, and she grows to love him, but August will find out.

This is truly an excellent film and the director and the screenwriters bring this movie to an emotional and exciting ending.

Hal Holbrook did a wonderful job in the role of Old Jacob Jankowski, who recounts his past.

This is truly a movie you have to see.

Rated PG

Source => The Community Times / Via => Thinking of Rob