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Big Miracle

United States, United Kingdom

2012

107 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
  • Currently 2.2/5 Stars.
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DIR Ken Kwapis

EXEC Stuart M. Besser, Paul Green

PROD Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin, Eric Fellner, Steve Golin, Michael Sugar

SCR Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, Thomas Rose

DP John Bailey

CAST Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Dermot Mulroney, Vinessa Shaw, Tim Blake Nelson, Ahmaogak Sweeney, Kathy Baker

ED Cara Silverman

PROD DES Nelson Coates

MUSIC Cliff Eidelman

Synopsis

In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend – a Greenpeace volunteer – on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. –IMDb

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Cassandra Niki S

23May12

Could've done much better, as the comment below says, it is strangely paced. Had some touchy moments, but didn't seem to wow me at all.

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Kacey

8Feb12

Emotionally manipulative, strangely paced, and a terribly done mesh-up of old news clips with new footages. But gosh darn, was it fun to yell out "WHALES!!!!" like an idiot every time a whale was on screen.

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Review: BIG MIRACLE

By Twitchfilm.com on February 7, 2012
This is a film with a beat-you-over-the-head environmental message. It is being released really early in the year. It has Ted Danson in a starring role. And it is directed by Ken Kwapis, the guy who gave
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By Daniel A. DiCenso on February 9, 2012

Twenty-four years after Greenpeace activists, oil drillers, the military, and politicians came together to rescue three California gray whales trapped in the frozen ice near Barrow, Ken Kwapis turns…  read review

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