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Review: Watts leads 'Penguin Bloom,' a sweet story about bouncing back Netflix offering centers on a family that helps nurse a wounded magpie back to health Adam Graham A wounded bird helps a family heal in "Penguin Bloom," a warm story of connection and rebuilding elevated by the tenderness and honesty of its performances. Naomi Watts, as dependable an actress as we have today, stars as Sam Bloom, an extremely active wife and mother of three rambunctious boys who's wounded in a tragic accident while on vacation with her family in Thailand. She leans on a balcony railing that gives way and ...

Watts also opens up about the learning curves of filming in a wheelchair. Naomi Watts is shining a light on disability and healing from trauma with an unlikely hero at its center in her new drama Penguin Bloom. The film is based on the true story of Australian mother Sam Bloom who, while vacationing in Thailand over the holidays with her husband Cameron and three boys, fell 20 feet from the roof of their hotel's balcony after a rusty railing gave away and fell to the concrete below. The accident fractured her skull, ruptured her lungs, shattered her spine in several places and left her paral...

Naomi Watts gives disability story wings with ‘Penguin Bloom’ Stephen Schaefer © Provided by Boston Herald JAN. 25, 2021 - Naomi Watts as Sam Bloom in "Penguin Bloom." Photo by Hugh Stewart, courtesy Netflix There are no penguins in “Penguin Bloom,” only a disabled magpie rescued by the Bloom family and named Penguin. It turns out lucky, in this true story, for everyone. For Naomi Watts’s Sam Bloom is, like the bird, severely disabled. An accident on a family vacation in Thailand has left her bitter, depressed and, unable to move or feel below her arms, confined t...

The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln, explores the tumultuous journey many disabled people take to embracing their disability. And, yet again, filmmakers have effectively erased disabled people from the narrative. Penguin Bloom tells the story of Sam Bloom, who becomes a paralysed wheelchair user after a fall. Alongside her husband and children, she takes solace in caring for an injured magpie, which the children name Penguin. The film, based on a true story written by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive, could have spotlighted the real tragedy, beauty and love present throughout the journ...

Share on Twitter Eight years ago, Sam Bloom was enjoying a family holiday in Thailand with her husband Cameron and three sons, Rueben, Noah and Oliver. “Cam and I have always loved travelling, so we thought we wanted to take the boys overseas,” the 49-year-old told SBS News at her home in Sydney's northern beaches. “We were about four days into our holiday and one of the kids spotted a stairway up to an observation deck, so we all went up.” They were staying in a tiny village near the ocean, and from the two-story balcony, the tropical vista stretched as far as the eye cou...