Big Miracle

Big Miracle is a 2012 BritishAmerican family drama film starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. The film, directed by Ken Kwapis, is based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales by Tom Rose, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

Drawn into the collaborative rescue work are several normally hostile factions Inupiat whale hunters, a Greenpeace environmental activist, an oil executive, ambitious news reporters, the National Guard, the American president and politicians on the state, national and international levels. Also joining in the effort are two entrepreneurs from Minnesota, who provide deicing machines to help keep the hole open.Finally an enormous Soviet icebreaker ship arrives to remove the last barrier before the whales die. The ships first attempt doesnt work and leaves only a dent. The ice is finally broken and the adult whales Fred and Wilma escape the ice. Sadly, the infant whale BammBamm dies from injuries and does not surface again. ........

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