Title: Big Miracle
Publisher: Universal
Pictures Year: 2012
Media: Film –
Based on a true story
This film is for Ages: 7-adult
Rating: PG
Subjects/Themes: California
Grey Whales, Working Together, Alaska, Television News Media,
Plot Summary: A local Alaska news reporter discovers
three California Grey Whales trapped in the quickly freezing bay. His story makes national news uniting
Greenpeace activists, oil company executives, the whaling Inupiat Tribe, the Alaska
National Guard, The Soviet Navy, President Regan and President Gorbachev in a
desperate fight against time to save the whales.
Review: Everyone in the family will enjoy this
movie. The characters each have personal
motivations for helping to save the whales not all of them wholly
altruistic. The film does a good job of
creating realistic looking whales. Drew Barrymore
gives a solid performance as a Greenpeace activist who is more concerned with
saving the whales than wearing animal tested make-up. Ted Danson is a treat as the oil executive
who finds saving the whales is more emotionally moving that he thought it would
be. I walked away feeling great. this movie has all the feel good ingredients: people working together, man versus the elements, ingenuity, compassion, whales and the enhanced images of the Russian ice breaker hitting the ice was pretty cool too.
If you like this film
you may also like: Free Willy (PG, Whale Rider (PG 13)
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