Robert Pattinson Goes To The Circus

Robert Pattinson stretches out as he starts filming on Water for Elephants in Fillmore, Calif., on Thursday afternoon (May 20).

Water for Elephants is told as a series of memories by Jacob Jankowski (Pattinson, Hal Holbrook), a ninety or ninety-three year-old man who lives in a nursing home. As the memories begin, Jacob is twenty-three years old and preparing for his final exams as a Cornell University veterinary student when he receives the news that his parents were killed in a car accident.

After learning his parents were all but broke, Jacob jumps on a train only to learn it is a circus train. When the owner of the circus, Uncle Al, learns of his training as a vet, he is hired to care for the circus animals.

Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, and Mark Povinelli also star.

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