FREE: Water For Elephants

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We're introduced to the Benzini Brothers circus one dark night in 1931, as young Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson) jumps on the company's train. A veterinary student at Cornell University, Jacob was just about to take his final exam when his parents were killed in a car crash, leaving a mountain of debt they'd taken on for his education. Desperate and disillusioned, Jacob soon becomes useful to the company's proprietor, a charming but terrifying man named August (Christoph Waltz), by taking on the care of the menagerie of creatures in the circus -- including the four horses that August's beautiful wife, Marlena (Reese Witherspoon), uses for the show's main act. When one of the mares becomes ill, August replaces her with a sweet and uncannily clever elephant named Rosie, whom Jacob is charged with training. However, Jacob also falls in love with Marlena, of course, igniting August's rage, which he unleashes not only on the guilty couple, but on Rosie, whom he prods and beats brutally. At the risk of stating the obvious, Waltz is so ridiculously compelling and eerily menacing, it could be said that he carries the movie -- if not for the fact that the show is completely stolen by Rosie the elephant (whose real name is Tai)