“We’re all a lot more lovey-dovey now,” he says. When the story starts, in the 1920s, it was a time, notes Domhnall, when families weren’t so openly affectionate in the way that many are today. “And then by chance he stumbled upon the joy of being a parent.” “When he came back from the war he was damaged, he was a lost soul,” says Curtis. “I loved the idea that behind the creation of this world famous children’s story was the story of a family,” says director Simon Curtis. And it’s the story of how they became famous on the back of the stories, and the impact that had on their lives. Milne, his wife Daphne and their child Christopher Robin. So it’s not the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, it’s the story of the family that created the stories. “Goodbye Christopher Robin is the story of the writing of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Milne and his son Christopher Robin, and Domhnall Gleeson and Will Tilson playing them in the film But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family? Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his wife Daphne (Margot Robbie) had a live-in nanny, Olive (Kelly Macdonald) who looked after their eight year-old son, Christopher.Īlong with his mother Daphne, and his nanny Olive, Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. Milne and his son Christopher Robin (Will TIlston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh.ĭomhnall Gleeson ( About Time, Brooklyn) stars as Alan Alexander Milne, a successful playwright and humourist who was traumatised after serving as an officer with the British army during the First World War and carried the horrors of the battlefield into peace time but, like so many men of that generation, rarely spoke of it. Goodbye Christopher Robin gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children’s author A.
The newer version contains a preface by the movie’s screenwriter, Frank Cottrell-Boyce (The Railway Man ), who also wrote the screenplay for the film directed by Simon Curtis.
Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh, which was re-released in 2017 as Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. The film is based on Ann Thwaite’s 1990 biography A. Goodbye Christopher Robin is the inspirational story of how a father bonded with his young son and created the much-adored Winnie-the-Pooh books. It’s the story of the family that created the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, how they became famous on the back of the stories, and the impact that had on their lives.
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