Charlie O’Brien, a circus owner, encounters an elderly man named Jacob Jankowski, who is separated from his nursing home group. Jacob reveals he had a career in the circus business and was present during one of the most infamous circus disasters of all time.In 1931, when Jacob was a 23-year-old veterinary medicine student taking his final exam at Cornell University, he learns that his parents were killed in a car accident. After the bank forecloses on the family home and in the midst of the Great Depression, he jumps onto a passing circus train. Jacob meets Camel, an employee with the Benzini Bros., who agrees to help Jacob obtain a job. Jacob meets ringmaster August, who after learning of Jacob’s veterinary background, hires him to care for the animals. Jacob meets August’s wife, Marlena Rosenbluth, and informs her that their star show horse has laminitis.Water for Elephants 2011 Movie Download.
August instructs Jacob to keep the horse performing as long as possible, but Jacob takes it upon himself euthanize it. August is furious and he threatens to throw Jacob off the moving train to scare him into submission. However, August later expressed gratitude to Jacob for potentially saving Marlena from being injured by the sick horse. August soon procures Rosie, an Asian elephant, and assigns Jacob to train her. He invites Jacob to dinner with him and Marlena, and Jacob learns that August is possessive of her. After August passes out from drunkenness, Jacob and Marlena share a dance and nearly kiss.
Jacob attempts but fails to train Rosie, and August beats her with a bullhook when she fails to follow orders. After Rosie runs off and nearly injures Marlena during a show, August savagely beats her. Jacob, with help from Marlena, Camel and his roommate Walter, clean her wounds and give her buckets of whisky to numb her pain. They unexpectedly learn that Rosie understands Polish commands. Rosie begins to perform beautifully and the circus enjoys a short period of success.