'Goodbye Christopher Robin' trivia and fun facts
Dubai International Film Festival 2017
This film won the people's choice award at the 14th edition of Dubai International Film Festival 2017.
C. R. Milne and the Rolling Stones
A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh, and C.R. Milne, Christopher Robin, lived on Cotchford Farm in East Sussex. It was also the last home of the Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, and where Jones drowned in his swimming pool on July 3rd, 1969. He was 27, the same age as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and many more famous people.
Meeting again
This is Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie's second time working together, after 'About Time'.
Locations
The film's locations have been entirely shot in the U.K.
The Christopher Robin Milne's real life
The film's depiction of Christopher Robin Milne's relationship with his parents is fairly accurate. In real life, C.R. never actually forgave his father for exploiting him (perhaps inadvertantly) to sell books. Instead, he learned to accept what had happened, and lived with it until he died in 1996. His relationship with his mother was worse; she also disapproved of the woman C.R. eventually married. After A.A. Milne died in 1956, C.R. had almost no contact with his mother until she died 15 years later. C.R.'s only child, his daughter, Claire, was born with Cerebral Palsy. She died in 2012, at age 56.
'The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'
The film was released in the year 2017 which marked the 40th anniversary of Walt Disney Pictures' 22nd animated film 'The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' (1977).
Collaboration
This is the third time that Domhnall Gleeson and Kelly Macdonlands work together in a film, after 'Anna Karenina' and 'Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows Part 2'.
Final titles (Spoilers)
One of the titles at the end of the film says "Christopher Robin never took any money for himself from the vast income generated by the stories". He did however spend it on his daughter, Clare, who was born with cerebral palsy. He wrote in his biography: "I had to accept it, for Clare's sake".