Goodbye Christopher Robin is a 2017 British biographical drama film about the lives of Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.

During World War II in 1941, Alan Alexander Milne – nicknamed "Blue" by his friends and family – and his wife Daphne receive a distressing telegram at their home.

Blue is having difficulty resuming his writing – he wants to draft a compelling treatise against war – and relocates the family to a house in the country with wooded acreage.

Reluctantly at first, Blue takes Billy along on walks in the woods and begins making up stories about the boy's adventures with the plush toy animals the parents have bought for him.

Blue invites his illustrator friend Ernest to join them at the house, and together they begin to develop the Winnie-the-Pooh books.

As Christopher Robin, Billy makes frequent public appearances, which he finds confusing and frustrating.

The telegram from the opening scene is revisited: Billy has been reported missing and is presumed dead – news Blue passes to Olive, who is distraught.

However, Billy has survived and arrives at the country house without warning, leading to awkward but tearful reunions with his parents and Olive.

Development on the project first began in 2010, with Steve Christian and Nuala Quinn-Barton, and subsequently Damian Jones, as producers.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Goodbye Christopher Robin struggles to balance wartime tension and childlike wonder, but offers valuable insight into the darkness shadowing the creation of a classic children's tale.

[14] The Economist gave the film a mixed review, writing that "As in so many middlebrow period dramas, the vintage cars are too shiny, the clothes too smart, the upper-class accents too strained and the dialogue too contrived.