Big Miracle has basically everything you’d want from an inspiring movie about a group effort to help a family of three California gray whales escape from being trapped in an ice dam in northern Alaska: It’s sincere, moving, family friendly, and just to up the tear-jerking ante, it’s based on a true story.
The tale begins in 1988 with Anchorage-area TV reporter Adam Carlson (John Krasinski), who’s humoring his 12-year-old buddy Nathan by videotaping his friends doing donuts in their snowmobiles on the frozen water, when he notices a momentary geyser blowing up in the distance. It turns out to be a whale exhaling through its blowhole below a ten-square-f...
Released:
2012
Rated:
PG
Length:
107 mins