Flipper (1996)

Directed by

Alan Shapiro

Genre

adventure film, family film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 354 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy spends the summer with his uncle on the Florida coast. He thinks it will be boring but he meets a dolphin and they become friends.

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What happens

Flipper is a 1996 American adventure film and a remake of the 1963 film of the same name (which in turn began a TV series that ran from 1964 to 1967). Written and directed by Alan Shapiro, the film stars Elijah Wood as a boy who has to spend the summer with his uncle (Paul Hogan), who lives on the Florida Gold Coast. Although he expects to have a boring summer, he encounters a dolphin whom he names Flipper and forms a friendship with. The film is unrelated to the 1995–2000 TV series of the same name, which was itself also a remake of the 1963 film and 1964 TV series. Instead of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a production company for the Flipper franchise, this film is distributed by Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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