Big Miracle (2012)

• Year: 2012
• Released: 03 Feb 2012
• Country: United States, United Kingdom
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430615/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Big_Miracle
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/big-miracle
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
• Runtime: 107 min
• Writer: Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, Tom Rose
• Director: Ken Kwapis
• Cast: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, John Pingayak
• Keywords: based on true story, based on a true story, duringcreditsstinger, aftercreditsstinger, reporter,

	6.5/10
	61/100
	75% – Critics
	64% – Audience

Big Miracle Storyline

October, 1988. Adam Carlson, a reporter for a local Anchorage television station, is currently in Barrow doing a series of pieces on the “local cultural color” of northern Alaska. While out on the sea ice filming a less than promising piece, he spots off in the distance what ends up being three California gray whales – a mother, father and son – who are literally imprisoned by ice which has surrounded them in the earlier than usual onset of winter. They are looking worse for wear as they have been ramming the ice surface to maintain a hole in the ice to be able to breathe and thus survive. The professional and cultural assessment he receives is that the whales, in their current situation, cannot survive for more than a few days, with the ice fives miles in distance to the open ocean with a vertical ice shelf that has developed midway. Adam’s piece on the whales not only gets played on his station, but is picked up by news services throughout the States, including the national broadcasters, which brings the plight of the whales to the attention of various different groups. First and foremost is Greenpeace, Anchorage-based Rachel Kramer in particular who will do anything to save the whales, she who happens to be Adam’s ex-girlfriend the two having parted on not good terms. Rachel tries to manipulate those who can do something to do those somethings. Those groups include the governor’s office, who she wants to request deployment of the National Guard specifically to transport via helicopter tow a privately owned hoverbarge capable of breaking through the ice. The problem for Rachel is that the hoverbarge is owned by her mortal enemy, J.W. McGraw of Alaskan Northern Oil, which wants drilling rights in the northern waters. More and more news services send their reporters to Barrow to cover the story, including Los Angeles based Jill Jerard after who Adam has long lusted from afar. The White House gets wind of the story, support for the whales which they are determined to demonstrate, as public support grows, that White House support especially important in an election year. And the local indigenous group, the Inupiat, initially plan to harvest the whales in their certain death in an effort to protect their natural hunting/fishing way of life, despite the gray whale specifically not being part of their natural diet.

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Well staged feelgood movie with message

Based on a 1988 true story (which, apparently, had a more ambiguous ending), Big Miracle tells of a family of three whales which get trapped beneath the ice near Barrow, Alaska, with only a rapidly freezing hole to breathe out of. The mutually antagonistic factions of the oil business, the Inupiat locals, and the environmental lobby combine to try to keep the whales alive until it becomes possible to get them the 5 miles from their breathing hole to open water, augmented (if not aided and abetted) by a sizeable press faction. Even the end of the Cold War gets a look in.

This film arrived with no fanfare and, despite a couple of irritations, proved to be a feelgood movie which I enjoyed.It is very well mounted, with most of the scenes involving the whales and the ice field being convincingly staged. The unexpectedly starry cast all did well, although I found Drew Barrymore’s Greenpeace girl a bit excessively preachy (by the time the film finished I had come to the conclusion that she was meant to be), John Kasinsky is a pleasing low-key leading man, and Kristin Bell is happy to portray a shallow young woman of over-riding ambition and little compassion.

It may be a little too leisurely for young children but, otherwise, I think it makes a good family movie despite the fact that the film’s title isn’t very good.

good family film

This is based on a true story of a family of whales stuck under the freezing ice in Alaska and what happens next. A local news reporter recruits his ex, a Greenpeace volunteer, to save the family of gray whales. Then the whole world started to notice and the world’s media descends on them all.

Drew Barrymore is a bit too annoying as a Greenpeace activist. She’s too shrill and needed to tone down her performance. John Krasinski is great as the everyman. Ted Danson relishes his role as an oil tycoon a little too much. He may have been miscasted. Kristen Bell is good as the ambitious reporter.

Big Miracle offers how many people of different views come together in support of something worthwhile to them all

I originally wasn’t going to watch this movie but my friend wasn’t too crazy about my first choice of The Grey so this one it was. From the beginning, this was quite an entertaining movie to watch with the hook being the “inspired by true events” story of the potential saving of three whales from the rough ice in the Alaskan waters. I give kudos to Ted Danson for portraying a character so opposite to what his views are and in making him quite likable and sympathetic to the point of him giving Drew Barrymore’s Greenpeace character some credit for doing such a good job in trying her best in her activist stance quite sincere in his remarks. As Drew’s on-again, off-again love interest, John Krasinski also deserves some credit for making his interests between her and fellow reporter Kristen Bell seem believable and heartfelt when he makes his choice. I was also pleasantly surprised that not only footage of NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw was included (considering the movie’s distributor, Universal, happens to now be a part of the National Broadcasting Company) but also of CBS’s Dan Rather and ABC’s Peter Jennings. But the biggest surprise came after I read the trivia on this site of this movie: the sports anchor appearing “with” Krasinski at the end was none other than future Alaska governor-not to mention future running mate of John McCain in the last presidential election-Sarah Palin without her familiar glasses. Since this took place in election year 1988, were they trying to imply-by her long close-up-that she would eventually be part of another such year. As Arsenio Hall once became famous for saying after the events of this movie, “Things that make you go hmmmm….”