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... mark, they may notice a somewhat miraculous shift begins to occur. It isn't that Greenpeace activist Rachel (Drew Barrymore) ever behaves as anything less than a holy crusader for Mother Nature. But she does start to question whether her perspective ... Comment?
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ACU grad Coates' sets for film in Alaska balances authenticiy, challenges of nature
Coates' latest feature film is "Big Miracle," an adventure drama from Universal Pictures that stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. Comment?
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Movie Review: Big Miracle: Whales = winning
... trapped in the ice about five miles from open water. His ex-girlfriend, a Greenpeace volunteer (played by Drew Barrymore ) gets involved as does oil executive J.W. McGraw ( Ted Danson ) and the local Inuit tribe, in an effort to free the whales from ... Comment?
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... Patricia Rozema) HBO's interpretation of "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale (Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, respectively), the fascinatingly eccentric mother and daughter who shared a ramshackle home in East Hampton, N.Y., with cats and ... Comment?
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... In the first few minutes of Big Miracle I settled down to watch the stereotypes roll by. And there are a few. Drew Barrymore plays Rachel Kramer, a Greenpeace activist, the obvious do-gooder heroine. The wise local elder, Malik (John Pingayak), who ... Comment?
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Med City Movie Guy: 'Miracle' is a whale of a picture
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... world is my favorite, too. What's your favorite black and white film? Go to the Center Stage blog to comment. Drew Barrymore's, "Big Miracle," is the true story of a family of whales trapped off an arctic town. It effectively tugs at the ... Comment?
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Moss Landing Marine Laboratory director helped with whale rescue
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A local scientist had a role in a whale of a tale that has hit the silver screen more than 20 years after the events it portrays occurred. As Jim Harvey, the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories' director, recalled the events depicted in 'Big Miracle,' he laced his narrative with the word 'surreal.' The story centers on the rescue of two California gray whales trapped under the Alaskan ice near Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the U.S. Barrow is typically ice-free for only a couple of months a year. The population is 4,000. Harvey's narrative involves a Russian ice breaker, eating Mexican food in a limo and the buzzing of chain saws wielded by Eskimos in a treeless landscape. It was an event that captured the world's attention. 'Big Miracle,' starring Drew Barrymore, tells how the whales became trapped and how a massive effort spearheaded by an environmental activist drew politicians, Cold War superpowers and the news media into the mix. Harvey, a professor of vertebrate ecology specializing in sea birds, sea turtles and marine mammals, had been spending time in Alaska as well as tagging gray whales in Baja California at the time of the rescue. The juvenile whales that became trapped made a mistake, and scientists generally don't want to intervene in these situations, Harvey said. 'Whales get caught in the ice, not all the time, but frequently enough that it wasn't a big deal for us,' he said. 'Once the media and the public got a hold of it, it became a big deal.' Harvey was working at National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle when he and his friend, Dave Withrow of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were asked to help. As related in a Moss Landing Marine Labs blog by Brynn Hooten, the trapped whales were first noticed by an Eskimo returning from a hunt. A local scientist wanted to record their sounds but didn't have the gear so he asked a friend at a local TV station for help. Reporters got involved and their footage soon intrigued the world. One whale disappeared and may have died without finding anywhere to breathe. A company sent chainsaws north to help. Rescuers cut new holes in the ice with the chainsaws but the whales for a time wouldn't leave the safety of their own open holes. Eventually, they moved to the new ones. 'These were three juvenile animals and they made a mistake ... an error in judgment in time' and didn't get around Point Barrow before the ice trapped them, Harvey said. An ice ridge had built up along the shore that was far too thick for chainsaws to cut through. But a Soviet icebreaker was in the nearby Beaufort Sea. In a Cold War 'kumbaya' moment during the era of 'glasnost' (openness/transparency), the Russians were asked to help. That gave our government concern because the Soviets would be close to the Naval Arctic Research Lab. 'It was surreal,' Harvey said. The icebreaker crashed a path right to the whales and backed out, giving them an path to the open sea. 'I feel confident we gave them a fighting chance,' Harvey said in the blog. Harvey has not seen the movie, which opened Feb. 3, but plans to. 'Most biologists consider it to be part of natural selection,' Harvey said, about whales getting trapped in ice. Beginning around October, when ice starts closing in, gray whales start what is thought to be the longest migration by a mammal, traveling from the Arctic to Baja California to mate and back. They are often seen off the Monterey County coast and whale-watching trips are big business. Harvey is not depicted in the movie, but it's an adventure he has related to his lab students over the years. 'It was the most dynamic and public thing I did in Alaska,' he said. He said many of his students, past and present, want to see the movie because he has regaled them with the story over the years. 'Some of my old students are contacting me now ... saying 'Hey, we remember your story.' ' Harvey never did any whale tagging but the two weeks he spent on the scene during the three-week rescue is where the 'surreal' meets the sublime. With all the attention the whales were receiving, rescuers and scientists figured they were stressed enough and didn't want to stress them more with tagging. 'It was surreal in a lot of ways for me,' Harvey said. 'Having that many media in Barrow must have been surreal for the natives.' The influx of rescuers, government officials and media overwhelmed the available rooms in Barrow, so Harvey and crew bunked at the government research station. They were flown to the whale site daily by helicopter and ferried to lunch in a limo owned by the northernmost Mexican restaurant in the world. And the food? 'Surprisingly good for Barrow,' Harvey said. 'Now I live in Watsonville, where Mexican food is the norm.' Going from the surreal to the serious, Harvey said the whales would have died without the rescue. He feels proud about his real-life role in such a historic event. 'Once you are tasked with helping out, it felt very good when the outcome was positive,' he said. 'It sounds like it's a movie made for the family. Consequently, I'm sure that young kids and older folks will enjoy the interaction that humans sometimes have with whales,' Harvey said. 'Humans sometimes can have a positive influence on whales' lives.' Comment?
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... Big Miracle finished all the way down in ninth on Thursday with $0.341 million. The family film starring Drew Barrymore finished in fourth place this week with just $9.34 million. The performance was especially lackluster when considering it was the ... Comment?
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The Weekend Rent: Unforgettable Movies About Forgetting Everything
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... The Vow isn't the first - or we fear the last - romantic flick to play the amnesia hand. In 50 First Dates , Drew Barrymore plays a gal with anterograde amnesia - someone who has no short-term memory and forgets what happens every day - and Adam ... Comment?
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West Volusia Beacon Movie Review - Big Miracle
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... recognizable actors, but they aren't quite A-list enough to distract from the film itself. Well, save for Drew Barrymore, who plays tenacious Greenpeace advocate Rachel Kramer. While her character is certainly enthusiastic about rescuing the trapped ... Comment?
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If the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore chuckler "50 First Dates" had been recast as a romantic drama and produced by the Oprah Winfrey Network, "The Vow" might have been the result. Comment?
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... adventure film, but compared with most family movies, it's practically something out of Noel Coward. With Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Ted Danson, Tim Blake Nelson. HHH (LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle -- 2/3). 1:47. CARNAGE (R). Set in Brooklyn ... Comment?
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Movie Review: The Vow Lacks Chemistry
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... yearning. But something feels a little off, conceptually and it's not just the fact that Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore did a better variation on a similar theme in the comedy 50 First Dates . The thing is, the real plot point here isn't that ... Comment?
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Starring : Drew Barrymore , John Krasinski , Kristen Bell , Dermot Mulroney , Ahmaogak Sweeney, John Pingayak, Tim Blake Nelson , Ted Danson , Vinessa Shaw , James LeGros A grounding in the real-life story makes this film much less sentimental than it looks. Comment?
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'Big Miracle' Delivers on the Warm and Fuzzy
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... Willy: 2012 Edition?" my husband asked this weekend. Granted, "Big Miracle" - the new family film starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski - is set in a rural community in Alaska, not Washington, and features the plight of three grey whales, not ... Comment?
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Drew Barrymore Photographs Her Muse, Up-and-Comer Shailene Woodley
Drew Barrymore 's seamlessly transitioned from starring in her latest film, Big Miracle , to photographing Shailene Woodley for Vs. Comment?
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'Big Miracle' is a true pleaser for the entire family
... it's particularly unique or anything, but yes, I appear, for approximately 5.2 seconds, in a movie alongside Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. Me and about a thousand other Alaskan extras, but who's counting? Krasinski is Adam Carlson, a young ... Comment?
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1. Story of Arctic rescue, served up with laughs and romance, warms...
... a news piece in the hope that the networks might pick up the story. Adam's old flame Rachel Kramer (Drew Barrymore), who is now a vociferous Greenpeace activist, sees his report and rushes to the scene to help in any way she can. Annoyingly for her, ... Comment?
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... through the ice to give them a passage to safety. Ken Kwapis's fictionalised recreation of the story with Drew Barrymore as the volunteer is ponderously sincere but it does tell a good story. We welcome your opinions. This is a public forum. ... Comment?
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'Big Miracle' warms up the Arctic Circle
... is on track for an early April completion of its new facilities. "Big Miracle," starring John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore, directed by Ken Kwapis, PG, 117 minutes. A movie about saving whales will give you a chill - then warm your heart. "Big ... Comment?
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