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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Chicago Passes to Matt Damon’s ‘We Bought a Zoo’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on December 15, 2011 - 12:49am
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The movie poster for “We Bought a Zoo” with Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson.
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What’s the greatest family challenge you’ve overcome?
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Winners need to arrive early as seats are consumed on a first-come, first-served basis. Since advance screenings are overbooked to ensure a full house, winners are not guaranteed entrance and must arrive early. We recommend arriving 45 minutes before the screening’s scheduled start time. Winners are typically e-mailed our advance-screening passes two days before the screening date. HollywoodChicago.com LLC is a promotional partner with the studio and its partners and doesn’t assume any liability for this giveaway.
© 2011 Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com LLC
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CHICAGO – In our latest family dramedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the new film “We Bought a Zoo” starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson from the director of “Jerry Maguire”!
“We Bought a Zoo” also stars Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning, Patrick Fugit, Colin Ford, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Angus Macfadyen, John Michael Higgins, Carla Gallo, J.B. Smoove, Stephanie Szostak, Michael Panes, Kym Whitley and Todd Stanton from writer and director Cameron Crowe along with writer Aline Brosh McKenna.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “We Bought a Zoo” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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Here is the synopsis for “We Bought a Zoo”:
“We Bought a Zoo” is a funny, inspiring and true story about the magical power of family to persevere in the face of extraordinary challenges. This is acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe’s (“Jerry Maguire”) first motion picture for all audiences and stars Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church.
Damon portrays a single dad who – looking to give his family a much-needed fresh start – moves to a home situated in the middle of a zoo. He and his two children attempt to bring it back to its once-glorious state. The film weaves together warmth, laughter and a spirit of optimism that is perfect for the holiday season.
The movie trailer for “We Bought a Zoo” can be watched now below.
To win your free advance-screening movie tickets, make sure you’re logged into your HollywoodChicago.com Web site account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having a Web site account with a valid e-mail address is required to win. Then, simply add a new comment in the form below. In your comment, include an answer to this question:
What’s the greatest family challenge you’ve overcome?
This Hookup is simple! Just submit your comment below and we will award 40 admit-two tickets randomly via e-mail for our “We Bought a Zoo” Hookup. Good luck!
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Winners need to arrive early as seats are consumed on a first-come, first-served basis. Since advance screenings are overbooked to ensure a full house, winners are not guaranteed entrance and must arrive early. We recommend arriving 45 minutes before the screening’s scheduled start time. Winners are typically e-mailed our advance-screening passes two days before the screening date. HollywoodChicago.com LLC is a promotional partner with the studio and its partners and doesn’t assume any liability for this giveaway.
 | By ADAM FENDELMAN |
Being there.
A challenge in my family was moving back to my parents’ house to become their caregiver in a sense. Both parents are seniors and now more than ever they need someone to watch over them, make sure if anything is needed, I am there to provide assistance. It was hard to get back to being under their roof, but family is all about being there when most needed, and I am glad to be there for them.
Family challenge
My nephew needing the 1st of many blood transfusion at a few months old due to a genetic disease.
Family Challenge
Our biggest challenge was getting my son out of debt and keeping him debt free. Like a typical college student his expectations on his future earnings were great and using credit to party was so much fun and it was easier to keep it a secret from us….well the debt kept piling.. Thanks to our help he is debt free now , but with bad credit for the next few years. Hopefully he learned his lesson.
Greatest challenge
My sister in law had terminal cancer it wasn’t what she/we wanted but we we all there for her
What’s the greatest family challenge you’ve overcome?
My divorce was final the day after Valentine’s day in 2005 and 2 mos to the day (Tax Day) I started chemo for HD Lymphoma. I am about to start my 3rd challenge raising a child on my own - I am less than a month from my due date.
family
My mother-in-law being very mentally sick and moved in with us.
family challenge
having a father who has alzheimer’s
Family Challenge
Being in a long distance relationship with my now husband that spanned 5,000 miles for over 4 years.
Our Exploding Toilet
During heavy rains the toilet in a bathroom in the hallway between our kitchen and dining room occasionally erupts like Mount Vesuvius, spewing dozens of gallons of filthy rainwater into our house. Packing dozens of towels around the toilet and staging all the tools needed to shunt the water through the kitchen and out into the breezeway has become a family tradition. Even our four year old can wield a big squeegee with the practiced skill of a high-rise window washer.
I even started buying special absorbent “pillows” that are used in industrial settings where chemical spills are a common problem. During the summer when thunderstorms are prevalent, we’d all huddle around the TV and hang on every word Tom Skilling said, rushing to pack the absorbents in the bathroom if he issued a thunderstorm warning.
After five different sewer experts analyzed the problem, we finally got a guy to come out with a sophisticated fiber optic camera that he inserted into the sewer in the yard. There was a sinister partial blockage hidden in the bend of a pipe that was big enough to prevent rainwater to flow out during heavy rain but small enough to allow sewage to flow normally during typical weather. He brought in some crazy contraption that chewed through the blockage.
Now, during heavy rain, our hearts beat a little faster, our fight or flight mechanism at the ready, but it appears that we once again have a normal, non-exploding toilet like everybody else.
What was the Greatest Family Challenge to Overcome?
The realization that we all are mortal, even those that, early on in life, were immortal. Like my Parents.