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An animal-loving volunteer and a small-town news reporter are joined by a native Alaskan boy to rally an entire community, and eventually rival world superpowers, to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle. — Universal Pictures.
Plot. In small town Alaska 1988, Adam Carlson, a news reporter, recruits his ex-girlfriend Rachel – a Greenpeace volunteer – on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Adam names the father Fred, the mother Wilma, and the infant Bamm-Bamm.
Big Miracle is a 2012 family drama based on the true story of the 1988 international rescue effort “Operation Breakthrough” to free a family of three gray whales trapped in the ice near Point Barrow, Alaska. It stars John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.
While out on the ice one day filming a kid doing lame tricks on his snowmobile, Adam spots a family of three California gray whales. They’re trapped, stuck in a relatively small circle of unfrozen water. And with the temperature dipping to 30 or 40 degrees below zero, their hole is closing fast.
- Ken Kwapis
Big Miracle doesn't have much of a plot, other than the comic escalation of interested parties who descend like vultures on the tiny town, hoping to convert the whales' plight into...
Feb 4, 2012 · Adam Carlson (John Krasinski), a TV reporter filing from Barrow, a remote corner of Alaska populated mostly by Inupiat tribesmen, happens upon the story of a lifetime when three California grays...
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Big Miracle (2012) A small town newspaper reporter writes about three California gray whales trapped in the Arctic Circle in that unites a Cold War-era United State and USSR in an effort to rescue them.
