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Free Willy

Free Willy

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Much-loved family classic in which a tearaway foster child forms a bond with a traumatised whale.

CertificateU

Duration107 mins

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  • Brad, 9
  • 1 reviews

WHALE TALE

4 stars

27 Sep 2020

If you like or love sea creatures as much as I do then this is the movie for you.

Free Willy is a great movie about a Orca Whale.

There is a boy called Jesse who is an orphan and is played by the actor Jason James Richter and he decides to vandalise a theme park.

He gets into trouble and is put with foster parents. Sad times for Jesse as he was very naughty to vandalise peoples property.

He's got to make things better and he works at the theme park.

He meets Willy a Orca Whale who has been separated from his family.

The both of them form a very special bond and meet a whale trainer named Rae Lindley who is acted by Lori Petty.

Rae learns Willy a lot of tricks. Willy is very bright.

There is a very very greedy park owner named Dial whom is played by the actor Michael Ironside. He plans to make a lot of money from Willy and the tricks that he has learned to perform.

Dial sees a lot of pound and dollar signs in front of his eyes. Bling Bling Ka-ching.

I've rated the movie as a PG.

The Genre I thinks would be a Drama to watch with Children And Family.

The Language is English.

The Director :is Simon Wincer.

The Producers are Jennie Lew, Tugend.Lauren and Shuler Donner.

The Writers are Keith Walker, and Corey Blechman.

The Films Release Date was July 16th, 1993,

The movie was made a long time before I was born.

The film goes on for 1h 51m.

and the Production Company are Alcor Films.

As an animal lover myself I did enjoy this film as I always like happy endings.

In my booklet off Mrs Baxter I was happy to know that the film Free Willy raised awareness to the plight of Orca Whales and the conditions that the Whales were kept in has improved.

Save the Whale Foundation raised 20 million dollars because this movie was produced.

I'm glad that this movie helped these Ocra Whale to live better..

This movie made me smile and feel happy.

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