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      • Based on a true story, “Big Miracle” follows the controlled chaos and unlikely cast of characters who found a way to work together to free a family of California gray whales who had been trapped off the coast of an Alaskan town located above the Arctic Circle.
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    Big Miracle, originally Everybody Loves Whales, is a 2012 drama film directed by Ken Kwapis. It stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. The film is based on Tom Rose's 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

  3. Once Roy Ahmaogak decided to report three gray whales trapped in the ice near Barrow rather than leave them to their natural fate, it was probably inevitable that their story would wind up in ...

  4. Feb 6, 2012 · Nearly 25 years ago, a dramatic rescue of three gray whales trapped by sea ice off the coast of Alaska went into motion, providing the basis of the new movie "Big Miracle." Here is the true...

  5. Feb 13, 2012 · Hardly anyone is unaware of the plight of the three gray whales that were stranded under the ice near Barrow, Alaska, in 1988 -- especially since the release of a new movie, ‘Big Miracle ...

  6. Feb 10, 2012 · In 1977, based on information produced by scientists who did not yet know how to count bowhead whales in the Arctic, the International Whaling Commission and the US government believed the...

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  7. For me, the big attraction is that it's based on a true story, which I read the history of. Of course, in the movie, there are personal-interest subplots that are fiction.

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  8. Feb 2, 2012 · Loosely based on Thomas Rose's 1989 book about a real-life Reagan-era drama that gripped the public, fed the news cycle, and brought grist to the publicity mill for both pols and fat cats, Big...