Dolphin Tale (2011)

Directed by

Charles Martin Smith

Genre

drama film, children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 686 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy befriends a dolphin that was rescued after losing its tail in a crab trap. Together with the aquarium staff, he helps the dolphin learn to swim with a prosthetic tail.

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What happens

Dolphin Tale is a 2011 American family drama film directed by Charles Martin Smith and written by Karen Janszen and Noam Dromi. It stars Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Kris Kristofferson, Cozi Zuehlsdorff in her film debut, and Morgan Freeman. The book and film are inspired by the true story of Winter, a bottlenose dolphin that was rescued in December 2005 off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. In the film, Winter loses her tail after becoming entangled with a rope attached to a crab trap, and must be fitted with a prosthetic one in order to swim naturally again. The film was released on September 23, 2011, by Warner Bros. Pictures; Dolphin Tale received positive reviews from critics and earned $95.9 million on a $37 million budget. A sequel, Dolphin Tale 2, was released on September 12, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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