Whale Rider
by Niki Caro
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Actor: Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky HaughtonDirector: Niki Caro
Brand: CASTLE-HUGHES,KEISH
Writer: Niki Caro
Producer: Bill Gavin
Producer: Frank H?bner
Producer: John Barnett
Producer: Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Producer: Reinhard Brundig
Writer: Witi Ihimaera
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Movie Reviews of Whale Rider
Movie Review: simply amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
beautifully filmed, beautiful moral. i watched this movie when it first came out when i was 11. i didn't pay much attention and thought it was boring. after watching free willy with my sister about 2 months ago, they mentioned a story about someone who rode a whale. i didn't think much of it until i had a dream that night about the whale rider. so what did i do? research! i realized i had seen whale rider before when i was small. anyways got it, watched it, cried tears of joy. WORTH EVERY PENNY. plus the new zealand accent is amazing, makes the American one sound horrible. :)
Summary of Whale Rider
There is a legend that Paikea rode on the back of a whale and led his people to New Zealand. Since that time tradition has decreed that the first-born male descendant will become chief of the tribe. Then Pai is born...and she is a girl. She grows up within a close-knit village which retains the tribes traditional spiritual relationship with the sea and their warrior values. Although loved by all, Pai faces rejection from her grandfather, Koro, who is brokenhearted that there is no grandson to carry on the line.One of the most charming and critically acclaimed films of 2003, the New Zealand hit Whale Rider effectively combines Maori tribal tradition with the timely "girl power" of a vibrant new millennium. Despite the discouragement of her gruff and disapproving grandfather (Rawiri Paratene), who nearly disowns her because she is female and therefore traditionally disqualified from tribal leadership, 12-year-old Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes) is convinced that she is a tribal leader, and sets about to prove it. Rather than inflate this story (from a novel by Witi Ihimaera) with artificial sentiment, writer-director Niki Caro develops very real and turbulent family relationships, intimate and yet torn by a collision between stubborn tradition and changing attitudes. The mythic whale rider--the ultimate symbol of Maori connection to nature--is also the harbinger of Pai's destiny, and the appealing Castle-Hughes gives a luminous, astonishingly powerful performance that won't leave a dry eye in the house. With its fresh take on a familiar tale, Whale Rider is definitely one from the heart. --Jeff Shannon
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