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When The Whales Came

1989, Movie, PG, 99 mins

When The Whales Came: Review

WHEN THE WHALES CAME tells a cautionary tale about human disharmonies--both with nature and with eccentrics who don't conform to social norms. Adapted by Michael Morpurgo from his own children's book and set in the Scilly Isles early in WW I, the story concerns a mysterious curse incurred by an island populace who once abused a group of narwhal whales; the friendship between two children and an deaf, kindly old outcast known as "The Birdman" (Paul Scofield); and the Birdman'... read more leave a comment