Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Penguin Bloom is a 2020 Australian drama film directed by Glendyn Ivin, from a screenplay by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps, and is based on the book of the same name by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive.

    • Struggling to Adjust
    • Healing with A Feathery Friend
    • Making The Movie

    After the accident, Bloom endured seven months of rehabilitation and then returned to her house in Australia. In a 2017 piece for TIME, Bloom described the harrowing experience of being in such a familiar place that suddenly felt wrenchingly unfamiliar. “When viewed from a wheelchair, the once-familiar sanctuary of love and comfort became an alien ...

    Three months after Bloom returned home her 11-year-old son, Noah, found the injured baby magpie, which the family named Penguin. The tiny bird had fallen out of its nest and dropped over 60 feet onto an asphalt parking lot, where she would have died had the Bloom family not taken her home. Sam Bloom wrote that caring for Penguin was an undertaking—...

    When Naomi Watts read Penguin Bloom, she was so moved by the family’s story that she wanted to adapt it for the screen. She told People: “The images were so compelling, and the story was filled with courage and hope.” The Bloom family was intimately involved in the adaptation—Sam Bloom allowed Watts to read her journals, and the movie was shot in t...

    • Annabel Gutterman
  2. Penguin Bloom: Directed by Glendyn Ivin. With Naomi Watts, Griffin Murray-Johnston, Andrew Lincoln, Essi Murray-Johnston. A family takes in an injured Magpie that makes a profound difference in their lives.

    • (13K)
    • Biography, Drama, Family
    • Glendyn Ivin
    • 2021-01-27
  3. Jan 23, 2021 · Penguin Bloom was released in cinemas on 21 January. An accident in Thailand left Australian Sam Bloom paralysed. The unlikely arrival of an injured magpie helped her recovery. Her story has now ...

    • Jennifer Scherer
  4. Jan 27, 2021 · Penguin Bloom tells the true story of Sam Bloom, a mother-of-three who was gravely injured during an accident in Thailand. Stars Naomi Watts and Andrew Lincoln worked with the real-life couple for the film.

    • Elena Nicolaou
    • 2 min
    • CANONGATE BOOKS
  5. PENGUIN BLOOM tells the amazing true story of renewal that occurred when a woman whose life seemed shattered found hope and purpose in her family's love -- and in a...

    • (86)
    • Drama
  6. People also ask

  7. Penguin Bloom tells the amazing true story of renewal that occurred when a woman whose life seemed shattered found hope and purpose in her family’s love — and in a bird on its own journey of recovery.

  1. People also search for