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Free Willy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Simon Wincer released in USA on 16 july 1993 with Jason James Richter
Free Willy (1993)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 16 july 1993
Length 1h52
Directed by Simon Wincer
OriginUSA
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Environmental films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Cétacé, Political films, Mise en scène d'un cétacé
Rating60%
Free Willy is a 1993 American family drama film that was released by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment label. The film stars Jason James Richter as a delinquent boy who becomes attached to a captive orca, the film's eponymous "Willy."
Followed by three sequels Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove, and a short-lived animated television series, Free Willy was a financial success, eventually making a star out of its protagonist Keiko. The film's climax has been spoofed several times in popular culture.
Michael Jackson produced and performed "Will You Be There", the theme for the film, which can be heard during the film's credits. The song won the MTV Movie Award for "Best Song in a Movie" in 1994. It was also included on the film's album, Michael Jackson's Dangerous (with a longer introduction) and All Time Greatest Movie Songs, released by Sony in 1999. Jackson also performed songs for the film's first sequel.
Synopsis
The film begins with a pod of orcas swimming near the coastline of the Pacific Northwest. The pod is tracked down by a large group of whalers, and one of them, Willy (Keiko the orca), is snared in their nets and taken away to a local amusement park.Actors
Jason James Richter
(Jesse)
Lori Petty
(Rae Lindley)
Jayne Atkinson
(Annie Greenwood)
August Schellenberg
(Randolph Johnson)
Michael Madsen
(Glen Greenwood)
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