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Free Willy
Free willy.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Simon Wincer
Produced by
Lauren Shuler Donner
 Jennie Lew Tugend
Richard Donner
Arnon Milchan
Written by
Keith A. Walker
Cored Blechman
Starring
Jason James Richter
Lori Petty
Jayne Atkinson
August Schellenberg
Michael Madsen
Keiko (orca)
Music by
Basil Poledouris
Michael Jackson (theme)
Cinematography
Robbie Greenberg
Edited by
O. Nicholas Brown
Production
   company
Le Studio Canal+
Regency Enterprises
 Alcor Films
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Release date(s)
July 16, 1993

Running time
112 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$20 million
Box office
$153,698,625
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 famous 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.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception 4.1 Box office performance
4.2 Critical response
4.3 British reaction
5 References in other media
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
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.
Sometime later in Astoria, Oregon, Jesse (Jason James Richter), a troublesome 12-year-old boy who has been on the streets since he was abandoned by his mother six years before, gets caught by the police for stealing food and vandalizing a theme park. Jesse's social worker Dwight earns him a reprieve by finding him a foster home and having him clean up the graffiti at the theme park. His foster parents are the kind and supportive Annie (Jayne Atkinson) and Glen Greenwood (Michael Madsen), but Jesse is initially unruly, hostile, and distrustful to Annie and Glen.
While working at the park, Jesse encounters Willy, the orca that was caught earlier. Willy is regarded as surly and uncooperative by the park staff, including his trainer Rae Lindley (Lori Petty), but he and Jesse strike up a bond. He also becomes friendly with Haida native Randolph Johnson (August Schellenberg), Willy's keeper. Jesse is able to get Willy to perform tricks and once his probation is finished, he is given a permanent job at the marina. Jesse also slowly warms to the Greenwoods and begins to settle into his new life.
The owner of the amusement park, Dial (Michael Ironside), sees the talent Jesse and Willy have together and makes plans to host "The Willy Show" in hopes of finally making money from Willy, who has thus far been a costly venture for him. On the day of the first performance, Willy is antagonized by the children banging constantly on his underwater observation area and refuses to perform. Willy smashes against the tank, causing damage to it. Jesse storms off in tears and plans to run away. Later, while at the tank, Jesse notices Willy's family calling to him and Dial's assistant Wade (Richard Riehle) and other men sneaking into the underwater observation area. They damage the tank enough that the water will gradually leak out in an effort to kill Willy and claim his $1,000,000 insurance policy.
Jesse, Randolph, and Rae hatch a plan to release Willy. They use equipment at the park to load Willy onto a trailer, and Jesse and Randolph steal Glen's truck to tow Willy to a marina. They try to stick to back roads to keep from being spotted with a gigantic orca, and eventually get stuck in the mud. Wade meanwhile notifies Dial that Willy is missing, and begin a search to find Willy.
Unable to move the trailer himself, Jesse calls Glen and Annie using a CB radio in Glen's truck. Annie and Glen show up and help free the truck, and continue on to the marina to release Willy. Dial knows where they are headed, and when they show up, he, Wade, and his henchmen are blocking the gate into the marina. Glen charges at them full speed in the truck, forcing the henchmen to scatter as the truck plows through the gate to the marina. Glen quickly turns the truck around and backs Willy into the water, flooding his truck in the process.
Willy is finally released into the water, but Dial and his goons attempt to stop them. During the struggle, Jesse gets Willy to swim away while the whaling ships close in with their nets. Jesse runs towards the seawall, calling for Willy to follow him, which steers him away from the boats. Jesse goes to the edge of the rocks where Willy swims up to him and tells Willy that if he makes the jump (it will be the highest jump Willy has ever attempted), he'll be free. Jesse says a tearful goodbye, but pulls himself together and goes back to the top of the rocks. He says a prayer that Randolph taught him from a story from his tribe and throws his arm in the air, giving Willy the signal to jump. To the amazement of everyone, Willy makes the jump and is finally free to return to his family. Everyone cheers, Willy leaps out of the water in celebration, and Jesse happily jumps up and down, but stops when he realizes that he'll probably never see Willy again. He goes back to Glen and Annie who hug him as they look out into the sea. Willy calls out to Jesse in the distance and both say their final farewell.
The movie ends with Willy, who has found his family, and the entire pod swimming and jumping through the ocean. A disclaimer appears, stating that during filming, no whales where harassed, mistreated, and harmed, and the whales where handled by the American Humane Association.
Cast[edit]
Michael Madsen as Glen Greenwood
Michael Ironside as Dial
Jason James Richter as Jesse
Keiko the Orca as Willy
Jayne Atkinson as Annie Greenwood
August Schellenberg as Randolph Johnson
Mykelti Williamson as Dwight Mercer
Danielle Harris as Gwenie
Lori Petty as Rae Lindley
Richard Riehle as Wade
Michael Bacall as Perry
Isaiah Malone as Vector
Nick Gardner as Juan Pedro Gimenez
Alec Nichols as Jesus Gonzales
Production[edit]
Most close-up shots involving limited movement by Willy, such as when Willy is in the trailer and the sequences involving Willy swimming in the open water, make use of an animatronic stand-in. Walt Conti, who supervised the effects for the orcas, estimated that half of the shots of the orca used animatronic stand-ins. Conti stated that the smaller movements of a real Orca actually made things difficult in some ways for him and his crew; they had to concentrate on smaller nuances in order to make the character seem alive.[1] The most extensive use of CGI in the film is the climax, filmed in Astoria, Oregon, where Willy jumps over Jesse and into the wild. All stunts with the orca were performed by the young orca trainer Justin Sherman.
Reception[edit]
Box office performance[edit]
The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 16, 1993 and grosssed $7,868,829 domestically in its opening weekend.[2] It went on to make $76 million in its foreign release for a total of $153,698,625 worldwide.[2] Upon its initial release, Free Willy ranked number 5 at the box office before moving to number 4 by the following weekend. Afterward, its rank in the box office and began to gradually decline, with the exception of a three day weekend (September 3 to September 6), in which gross revenue increased 33.6%.[3]
Critical response[edit]
Despite the film's strong earnings at the box office, critical response was generally mixed.[4] Free Willy currently holds a 57% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website, based on 22 reviews, indicating mixed but mostly positive reviews.[5] The film on Metacritic has a 79 out of 100 rating.
British reaction[edit]
Some British filmgoers found the title Free Willy to be amusing, because in Britain 'willy' is slang for 'penis.'[6]
References in other media[edit]
The aquatic star of this film was an orca named Keiko. The huge national and international success of this film inspired a letter writing campaign to get Keiko released from his captivity as an attraction in the amusement park Reino Aventura in Mexico City; this movement was called "Free Keiko". Keiko was famously moved to a bigger pool in Oregon by flying in a specially modified United States Air Force C-17 freight aircraft. In Oregon it was discovered that the combination of the chlorination and the excessively warm temperature of the water was causing skin lesions. Then Keiko was moved to Iceland to learn to be wild and after that to Norway where there were other orcas. Keiko eventually died of pneumonia in a Norwegian bay on December 12, 2003. A decade later in 2013 a New York Times video reviewed Keiko's only partly successful release.[7]
Free Willy has been spoofed in episodes of the animated series The Simpsons. The episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" includes the character Homer Simpson watching a director's cut of the film, in which Willy cannot make it over the rocks and crushes Jesse.[8] In The Simpsons Halloween special "Treehouse of Horror XI", Lisa Simpson frees a dolphin from the Springfield aquarium and it jumps over a rock barrier in a similar fashion to Willy, except its tail hits Lisa in the face.[citation needed]
The animated series South Park spoofed this film in the episode "Free Willzyx".
The beginning of the song Jesse plays for Willy on his harmonica was referenced by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the title line of the title aria in Love Never Dies, his 2010 sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Incidentally, this musical is set at a seaside theme park owned by the Phantom, albeit on the Atlantic coast rather than the Pacific, and without killer whales.
At the end of Cats Don't Dance, the animals appear in a number of amusing parody movie posters of classic films. The last one before the credits is of a parody of this movie called "Free Tilly", starring Tillie and Pudge.
In the film Tommy Boy when Chris Farley's character is in a small sailboat with his girlfriend, three boys on the shore yell "Free Willy", in reference to Farley's weight.
In the episode of The Suite Life on Deck called "I Brake For Whales", a parody of Free Willy is mentioned by Bailey. The parody is called "Free Billy".
The Spanish novel Aydin by Jordi Sierra i Fabra is known to be one of the origins of the story of Free Willy.
John Pinette, a famous comedian, did a routine in his album Show Me the Buffet, which talks about the Free Willy movies and notes that the phrase "Free Willy" would be unpronounceable by the Japanese.
Free Willy is the favorite film of the gorilla Koko, known for her use of American Sign Language.
An episode of the stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken includes a spoof of the TV drama Alias ("Whalias") in which secret agent Sydney Bristow has been replaced with an orca wearing a wig and a red cocktail dress. At the end of the segment, the whale escapes from her pursuers by jumping over a sea wall.
The Bob's Burgers episode "The Deepening" parodies the film in a fantasy sequence in which Tina Belcher dreams of freeing a mechanical shark. The music in the sequence resembles "Will You Be There."
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Rickitt, Richard (2006). Designing Movie Creatures and Characters: Behind the Scenes With the Movie Masters. Focal Press. pp. 161–65. ISBN 0-240-80846-0.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Free Willy". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
3.Jump up ^ "Free Willy". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
4.Jump up ^ Wilmington, Michael (July 16, 1993). "MOVIE REVIEWS : 'Free Willy': A Fairy Tale of Innocence". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
5.Jump up ^ "Free Willy (1993)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
6.Jump up ^ Gritten, David (1993-11-23). "Why Britain Is Having a Whale of a Laugh Over 'Free Willy'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-07-20.
7.Jump up ^ Winerip, Michael (September 16, 2013). "Retro Report: The Whale Who Would Not Be Freed" (video (11:43)). New York Times. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
8.Jump up ^ Mirkin, David (2004). The Simpsons season 5 DVD commentary for the episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Free Willy
Free Willy at the Internet Movie Database
Free Willy at Rotten Tomatoes
Free Willy at Metacritic
Free Willy at Box Office Mojo
The Whale Who Would Not Be Freed. (New York Times Video, September 16, 2013)


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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Dwight H. Little
Produced by
Jennie Lew Tugend
Lauren Shuler Donner
Richard Donner
Arnon Milchan
Written by
Karen Janszen
Corey Blechman
John Mattson
Starring
Jason James Richter
August Schellenberg
Jayne Atkinson
Jon Tenney
Elizabeth Peña
Francis Capra
Michael Madsen
Music by
Basil Poledouris
Cinematography
László Kovács
Edited by
Robert Brown
Dallas Puett
Production
   company
StudioCanal
Regency Enterprises
Alcor Films
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Release date(s)
July 19, 1995

Running time
95 min
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$30,077,111[1]
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home is a 1995 family film, directed Dwight H. Little, and released by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment banner. It is a sequel to the 1993 film Free Willy, also starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg. Free Willy 3: The Rescue, was subsequently released in 1997, making a trilogy. A fourth nonconsecutive film, Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove was released on DVD in Spring 2010. *Keiko the Orca does not actually appear in this film unlike the original movie. Willy is played by a robotic double while the Free Willy Keiko Foundation devised a plan to bring him to the Oregon Coast Aquarium where he would be rehabilitated for poor health.


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2 Cast
3 Reception
4 Music
5 Title
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]


 This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (January 2013)
It's been two years since Jesse saved and freed his orca friend. Jesse has since been adopted by his foster parents, Glen and Annie Greenwood. Jesse, now a hardy and responsible teenager, has an eye for girls, and he and his parents are preparing to go on a family camping trip to the Pacific Northwest. Before they leave town, however, Dwight, Jesse's former social worker, shows up to inform them that Jesse's birth mother, who abandoned him 8 years ago, was found in New York City, but has died and that she has left behind her other son, Jesse's 8 year-old half-brother named Elvis (Francis Capra). Elvis is sulky, overly talkative, and mischievous, and he is also prone to telling lies and easily gets on Jesse's nerves. He is invited on their trip to San Juan Island so that he and Jesse might get to know one another.
At the environmental institute there, Jesse reunites with his old Native American friend Randolph Johnson (August Schellenberg) whom Jesse met at the aquatic park when he met Willy and quickly becomes smitten with Randolph's attractive and kindly goddaughter, Nadine (Mary Kate Schellhardt), but is reluctant to romantically approach her out of concern for his friendship with Randolph. Meanwhile, resentment and disrespect from the petulant Elvis continues to be a problem for him. Mindful of both frustrations, Randolph gives him a carved orca pendant on a necklace to remind him of the power of his special connection to Willy. Jesse cautiously begins to show his interest in Nadine, also, and as the awkward teenagers grow closer, Jesse helps Nadine befriend Willy and his orca siblings, Luna and Little Spot, in part using amateur synchronized swimming.
As they continue to enjoy their camping trip, notwithstanding more angst from Elvis regarding his unhappy childhood, an oil tanker runs aground and spills oil into the ocean, trapping the three young killer whales in a small cove. When word gets out that the orcas are trapped and Luna is dying from the oil in her lungs, the president of the oil company (Jon Tenney) arrives and announces a great plan to move the orcas into captivity where they can recover from their injuries. His real plan, however, is to sell the orcas to marine mammal parks and have them perform in shows. While Luna is very sick and modern medicine doesn't work, she ultimately recovers after Jesse and Randolph secretly give her Native American medicine Randolph knows of.
Jesse, Nadine and Elvis get the orcas away from the cove by stealing the boat belonging to Glen and leading them out of the cove to safety, but then they are not able to save themselves when the tanker explodes and the crude oil in the water catches fire. Their boat hits a rock and starts to sink, while Glen, Annie, and Randolph set out to find them in Randolph's boat and radio for help. Nadine and Elvis are lifted into a rescue helicopter summoned by Randolph's distress signals, but Jesse slips out of the harness when reaching for the rescuer's hand and crashes into the water below. Nadine and Elvis scream for Jesse and beg the helicopter to go back down, but the thick black smoke billowing up from the flaming oil begins to choke the chopper's engine, forcing the pilot to fly the chopper away. Jesse surfaces as the chopper leaves, but is unable to stay above water. He goes back underwater and sees Willy swimming towards him. Jesse grabs onto Willy's dorsal fin and Willy brings Jesse back up to the surface. Although they are trapped in the middle of the flames, Willy dives deep and is able to swim underneath, taking Jesse with him.
Once they surface, they come upon Randolph's boat. Glen and Annie pull Jesse aboard and they thank Willy for saving his life. Willy does not want to leave, but Jesse tells him he's okay so he can go. Willy still does not budge and Jesse looks to Randolph for help who gives him a signal. Jesse understands what it means and pets Willy one last time before giving him a signal to swim away. Willy does and is later reunited with his family again. Later, the rescue workers bring Nadine and Elvis to the boat where they are happy to see Jesse alive. Jesse and Nadine happily hug and then Jesse acknowledges Elvis, who hands him a battered, folded up picture of Jesse and their mother. Jesse is stunned, and Elvis tells him that he had ripped up the picture out of anger, but then later had taped it back together for him. Elvis starts to cry as he tells Jesse that their mother always felt bad about abandoning Jesse and that she always talked about him, something Jesse never knew. He thanks Elvis for the picture and for finally allowing him to put the past behind him, and hugs Elvis. As they are hugging, Elvis tells him that their mother did love him. As a result, Glen and Annie decide to adopt Elvis too so the brothers can stay together.
When they part, Elvis asks where Willy, Little Spot, and Luna are, and Jesse tells him that they are reunited with their mother again. Elvis asks him how he knows that and Jesse grasps the orca necklace Randolph gave him and tells him that he knows. Jesse, embracing the mission of Natsilane, then starts whispering the prayer Randolph taught him two years before as the screen fades in on Willy and his family swimming and jumping in the sea.
Cast[edit]
Jason James Richter as Jesse Greenwood
Keiko the Orca as Willy
Francis Capra as Elvis
August Schellenberg as Randolph Johnson
Mary Kate Schellhardt as Nadine
Michael Madsen as Glen Greenwood
Jayne Atkinson as Annie Greenwood
Jon Tenney as John Milner
Mykelti Williamson as Dwight Mercer
Elizabeth Peña as Dr. Kate Haley
Paul Tuerpe as Milner's assistant
M. Emmet Walsh as Bill Wilcox
John Considine as Commander Blake
Steve Kahan as Captain Nilson
Neal Matarazzo as Helmsman Kelly
Reception[edit]
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home received mostly mixed to negative reviews, and currently holds a score of 36% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews.[2][3][4][5]
Music[edit]
Michael Jackson continued his affiliation with the Free Willy franchise, producing and performing the song "Childhood" for this movie.
The Pretenders performed "Forever Young", heard in the end credits when the orcas finally are released in the ocean.
Title[edit]
On early UK home video promotions, the movie was titled simply "Willy 2: The Adventure Home", presumably because the film's premise, unlike its predecessor, does not involve Willy being freed.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Rainer, Peter (1995-07-19). "MOVIE REVIEW `Willy' Returns for More Family-Bonding". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
3.Jump up ^ "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
4.Jump up ^ "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home". Entertainment Weekly. 1995-08-04. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
5.Jump up ^ Klady, Leonard (1995-07-16). "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home". Variety. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
External links[edit]
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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home at Rotten Tomatoes


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Free Willy 3: The Rescue
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Free Willy 3: The Rescue
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Directed by
Sam Pillsbury
Produced by
Jennie Lew Tugend
Richard Donner
Lauren Shuler Donner
Arnon Milchan
Written by
John Mattson
Starring
Jason James Richter
August Schellenberg
Annie Corley
 Vincent Berry
Patrick Kilpatrick
Music by
Cliff Eidelman
Theme
Basil Poledouris (uncredited)
Cinematography
Tobias A. Schliessler
Edited by
Margaret Goodspeed
Production
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Regency Enterprises
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Release date(s)
August 8, 1997 (USA)
 October 17, 1997 (UK)
 September 25, 1997 (Australia)
Running time
86 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$3,446,539
Free Willy 3: The Rescue is a 1997 family film directed by Sam Pillsbury, and starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg. Released by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment banner, the film is the second sequel to the 1993 film Free Willy, the first being the 1995 film Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home.


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2 Characters
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Jesse is sixteen years old and works as an orca-researcher on a research ship called the Noah alongside his old friend Randolph. They suspect that Willy and his pod are being illegally hunted by whalers posing as commercial fishermen. Aboard just such a ship, the Botany Bay, Max Wesley, who is ten years old, takes his first trip to sea with his father, John, a whaler from a long line of whalers, and learns the true unlawful nature of the family business. During his first hunt, Max is thrown overboard and comes face to face with Willy. From this point on, Max is working against his own father, teaming with Jesse and Randolph to save Willy from becoming $200-per-pound sushi. Jesse introduces Max to Willy properly after learning of Max's experience and how Max likes whales. Jesse tries to get his and Randolph's head boss to take the threat to the whales seriously, but he refuses to until Jesse manages to get proof with help from Max.
Jesse manages to sneak on board the Botany Bay to steal a sample of the spear guns that are used to shoot the whales, and discovers that the whalers are heading back out to go after Willy and his pod, using an audio recording of a song which Jesse plays on his harmonica as a lure for Willy, who won't realize that it's not Jesse until it's too late. Jesse's boss plans to call for help the next day, but knowing it will be too late then, Jesse, Randolph and one of their fellow researchers, Drew, steal the Noah research boat from her mooring and go after the whalers themselves. Max manages to buy them a little time by jumping into the water and forcing the whalers to pause their pursuit of the whales to perform a "man overboard" rescue for Max, which gives Jesse and his two companions enough time to catch up. John is angry because he learns that his son isn't on his side and believes that Max tried to sabotage the engine (Jesse had actually been the one who did this), but it doesn't stop him.
Jesse, Randolph and Drew use a flare gun and their boat's P.A. system to try to bluff the whalers into stopping, but when it doesn't work, Jesse rams the Botany Bay with the Noah just as they fire a harpoon, the jolt causing the harpoon to miss Willy and knocking John into the water. Willy tries to kill him, biting at him, but Jesse and Max manage to convince Willy to spare him. Max's father then gets trapped under a net and nearly drowns as the net drags him down, and ultimately comes face to face with Willy himself. This time, Willy, instead of killing him, saves him by pushing him to the surface and holding him there long enough for Jesse and Randolph to rescue him. The Marine Patrol arrive, having been summoned on the radio by Jesse before he rammed the Botany Bay, and catch the whalers (who are stunned by Willy rescuing their boss) in the act and arrest them. Being saved by Willy causes John to realize that he was wrong about the whales, and he apologizes to Max. John is not sure where to go from here as his whole life has been about whaling, but Max tells him he is his father and forgives him.
Later, Jesse, Randolph, Drew and Max witness the birth of Willy's son (the mother is an orca named "Nikki") and Jesse decides to name him Max when given the choice. The film ends with the two whales, their calf, and the rest of the pod swimming away out to the open sea.
Characters[edit]
Jason James Richter as Jesse Greenwood
Willy
August Schellenberg as Randolph Johnson
Annie Corley as Drew Halbert
Vincent Berry as Max Wesley
Patrick Kilpatrick as John Wesley
Tasha Simms as Mary Wesley
Peter LaCroix as Sanderson
Stephen E. Miller as Dineen
Ian Tracey as Kron
Matthew Walker as Captain Drake
Roger R. Cross as 1st Mate Stevens
Rick Burgess as Smiley
Roman Danylo as Pizza Kid
Reception[edit]
The movie had a mostly mixed reception. The film carries a score of 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews.[1][2][3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Rainer, Peter (1995-07-19). "MOVIE REVIEW `Willy' Returns for More Family-Bonding". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
2.Jump up ^ "Free Willy 3: The Rescue". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
3.Jump up ^ Klady, Leonard (1997-08-07). "Free Willy 3: The Rescue". Variety. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
External links[edit]
Free Willy 3: The Rescue at the Internet Movie Database
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Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove
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Directed by
Will Geiger
Produced by
John Stainton
David Wicht
Chris Miller

Screenplay by
Will Geiger
Story by
Cindy McCreery
Starring
Beau Bridges
Bindi Irwin

Music by
Enis Rotthoff
Cinematography
Robert Malpage
Edited by
Sabrina Plisco
Production
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ApolloMovie Beteiligungs
Film Africa Worldwide

Distributed by
Warner Premiere
Release date(s)
11 March 2010 (Hungary)
23 March 2010 (United States)

Running time
97 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove is a 2010 direct-to-video family film and the fourth and final installment in the Free Willy series. It stars Beau Bridges and Bindi Irwin. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 23 March 2010 in the United States. It was released on 2 August in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The film is not connected in any way to the first three movies and is considered to be a reboot of the series.
Plot[edit]
Kirra is sent to stay with Gus in his run-down amusement park in Cape Town after her father was hospitalized for six weeks. Upon arrival, Kirra is met at the airport by Mansa, one of her grandpa's employees. Kirra is initially unhappy about leaving her father, but she eventually makes friends with a boy named Sifiso.
After a fierce storm, a baby male orca was separated from his pod, and became stranded in a lagoon on Gus's property. The next morning, Kirra discovers the animal and names it Willy. Willy proves to be a big hit amongst the park visitors. However, Kirra is concerned about Willy, who is not eating due to stress. Kirra sets herself a mission to take care of it. Kirra tries very hard to get Willy to eat a fish, and finally succeeds after talking to it about her parents.
Gus' competitor Rolf Woods learns about the new attraction at Gus' park, and offers to buy Willy for $500,000, but no deal is made. After much perseverance, Kirra persuades Gus to call the marine rescue center for help in rehabilitating Willy back into the sea. However, Willy had under-developed echolocation skills and is unable to survive without his pod, thus making it unsuitable for rehabilitation. Not one to give up, Kirra does much researching on how to train Willy to use his echolocation skill, despite being told that there is no known method to do so. She then tries to feed Willy blindfolded, but fails many times.
Rolf, desperate for Willy, hatches a plot to poison Willy to get Gus to sell it at a cheaper price. After his plan fails, Rolf denies all knowledge of the plan, though he offers to buy Willy again.
Kirra then camps out by the lagoon to keep Willy calm after the failed plot. Willy suddenly wakes her up, pulls her into the water, and lets her ride him. After that, Kirra and Willy become a double-act at the park, attracting many reporters and cameramen. The money earned from this publicity is then used to fund the fishes needed for Willy's echolocation training. After many tries, Willy learns to use his echolocation, and manages to catch live fish swimming in the lagoon. In the meantime, Rolf returns to tempt Gus with a lower offer for Willy. Faced with a mounting food bill, Gus agrees to sell Willy to Rolf at 500,000 dollars, and insists the exchange take place after Kirra's departure.
Mansa makes an underwater recording device to record Willy’s sounds, hoping to use the sounds to locate Willy's pod. Despite working hard for days, they do not produce any results. One day, Sifiso invites Kirra to go to his Uncle Rudy's safari park to take her mind off Willy. On their way back, they see a billboard advertising Willy as a new attraction to Rolf's theme park. The pair then hurries back, but was too late as Gus had already signed the agreement to sell Willy. Kirra is heartbroken, and makes Gus promise to make sure that Rolf takes good care of Willy. Later, when Kirra goes down to the lagoon, she sees Willy’s pod. However, Gus does not believe her account.
Kirra and Sifiso go to seek Uncle Rudy's help with their plan to put Willy back into the ocean. However, he is not around, but the two steal a crane truck and drive it back to Pirate's Cove. Later, Gus agrees to help them get Willy back into the ocean if his pod can be found. Kirra and Sifiso then head for the harbour with Willy, while Gus and Mansa stay to distract Rolf, who was on his way over. Eventually they find Willy's family, and Willy is reunited with them. Kirra later jumps into the water to bid Willy farewell.
On the day of Kirra's departure, she says goodbye to Mansa and Sifiso at the airport, and agrees to come back next summer. As she gets on the plane, Gus wipes away a tear. Kirra smiles as she takes a final look on Cape Town. Meanwhile, Willy and his pod swim off into the ocean depths.
Cast[edit]
Bindi Irwin as Kirra
Beau Bridges as Gus, Kirra's maternal grandfather.
Siyabulela Ramba as Sifiso
Bongolethu Mbutuma as Mansa
Stephen Jennings as Rolf Woods, the owner of a rival theme park to Pirate's Cove.
Kevin Otto as Dr. Sam Cooper, Kirra's father and a veterinarian. He was injured in an unfortunate accident while tending to the animals.
Darron Meyer as the doctor of Kirra's father.
Jeanne Neilson an air hostess.
Robert Spencer as the nerdy boy.
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Free Willy
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Genre
Animation
Created by
Patrick Loubert
Voices of
Zachary Bennett
 Paul Haddad
 Gary Krawford
Country of origin
United States
 Canada
No. of episodes
13
Production

Executive producer(s)
Patrick Loubert
Michael Hirsh
Clive A. Smith
 Lauren Shuler Donner
 Richard Donner
Location(s)
Warner Bros. Studios, Florida
Running time
33 minutes
Production company(s)
Nelvana
Regency Enterprises
 Le Studio Canal
Warner Bros. Television
Broadcast

Original channel
ABC
Original run
September 24 – November 26, 1994
This article is about an animated television series. For the 1954-1955 CBS situation comedy, see Willy (TV series).
Free Willy is an animated television series, inspired by the 1993 film of the same name.
This television series was produced by Warner Bros. Television, Regency Enterprises and the Canadian company Nelvana for Warner Bros. Studios. The show, which aired for one season (1994) on American Broadcasting Company (ABC), continues the adventures of the orca Willy and Jesse, the boy who freed him from captivity as shown in the film. In retrospect, the series also anticipates multiple plot elements of the film sequel, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, released the following summer. The overarching conflict is reminiscent of Moby-Dick: a powerful oil baron, known to the main characters only as a cyborg called "The Machine" until the final episodes, loses his arm and part of his face to Willy while committing an environmental atrocity and wants revenge upon "that rotten whale... and his boy".


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1 Plot
2 Voice cast
3 Availability
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Jesse, age 14, has been adopted by his foster parents, the Greenwoods, and they have moved from Seattle to the Pacific coast. He is given a job at the Misty Island Oceanic Reserve, a local wildlife rescue and research institute where Randolph, his Native American mentor from the movie, now works. In the first episode, Jesse discovers he has the ability to talk to animals and understand their speech; Randolph, a Haida, explains that he is a Truth Talker. This revelation allows for Willy and the other sea creatures featured in the show to have full personalities and more prominent roles in key plot events. Jesse and Randolph work with Mr. Naugle, the head biologist, and Marlene, a research assistant, who are studying Einstein, a dolphin, and Lucille, a seal, teaching them behavioral communication with normal humans.
The main villain of the series, similar in personality to Captain Ahab, is a cyborg called "The Machine" who holds Willy responsible for his loss of an arm and part of his face. It was initially implied that Willy had bitten them off, but a flashback revealed that his submarine was destroyed upon encountering Willy, hurling him into another ship's screw propeller. His appearance recalls Locutus of Borg and the Phantom of the Opera. When not using his new submarine to create environmental havoc, he dons a mask and glove (perhaps a nod to the contributions of Michael Jackson to the films) for disguise and continues to run an oil company under his former identity, Rockland Stone.
Early in the series, The Machine jettisons his ship's skipper, Captain Frye, revealing he has created, à la Frankenstein, four green, slimy, synthetic henchmen called Amphonids from inanimate toxic waste. They mainly function as comic relief, oddly reluctant to carry out instructions to pollute and destroy the environment, preferring to slouch around and entertain themselves, and often making costly and catastrophic errors for The Machine.
Throughout the series, Jesse is constantly fighting plots and schemes hatched by The Machine to destroy Willy, such as releasing deadly parasites and creating genetically modified giant squid predatory to orca, and to despoil the ecosystem, such as wanton spilling of garbage, toxic waste and oil into the sea. Meanwhile, he attempts to influence the ostensibly reasonable industrialist Mr. Stone to adopt environmentally friendly industrial practices through his publicist, P.R. Frickey.
While the first half of the show centers mostly around Willy and Jesse's adventures at the Misty Island Oceanic Reserve, the second half takes them to the Arctic with eco-activist Ben Shore. They discover an untouched paradise island with various healthful benefits ("Paradise Found") and are greeted by Arktos, a bear who claims Jesse is the "protector" of the island, and other talking animals. Unfortunately, The Machine follows and attempts to industrialize the island, destroying its natural beauty and benefit to the ecosystem. Ben heroically demolishes the passageway to the island after Jesse and Willy escape, thwarting The Machine, but injuring and trapping himself. However, the healing effects of the island restore Ben's health and he lives happily in his environmental utopia, having given Jesse a carved eagle necklace as a keepsake to carry on his work. Ben also recovers from the missile from the Machine he took to save Jesse and Willy. Upon returning to Misty Island, Jesse and Willy become entwined in a Christmastime plot ("Yuletide or Redtide") to use a biodegradable jetski (assumed to be a gift from his parents, Glen and Annie, but actually from Stone) for the release of deadly red tide to thrive in the unseasonably warm water, implied to be an effect of global warming. Unchecked, the microbes would simultaneously destroy Willy, the ecosystem and Jesse's reputation. When The Machine is defeated by teamwork and a sudden cold spell, saving everyone's good cheer, the Amphonids make themselves into a distorted Christmas tree and actually sing along with the townspeople, to their master's chagrin.
Toward the end of the series, Jesse, Willy and Annie finally realize that Rockland Stone is The Machine and proceed to turn his attempts to manipulate Jesse to their advantage. Specifically, in the second to last episode, The Machine kidnaps Marlene's crush, the balding chemist Dr. Elliot, and plots to combine his oil solidification formula with a massive intentional spill to suffocate Willy and his friends under a solid orange crust. When he brazenly impersonates Elliot (using a different mask) to influence Marlene into giving Stone Industries one million dollars from Institute funds, Jesse's knowledge allows himself and Willy to see through the disguise, save Dr. Elliot, prevent the fraudulent donation and stop the oil with the formula. In the series finale ("Ghost Ship"), the heroes finally unmask The Machine before the public, bringing him to justice and freeing Willy, the other sea creatures, the people of Misty Island and the environment at large from his reign of terror.
Voice cast[edit]
Characters not seen in the movies are described in parentheses.
Zachary Bennett - Jesse Greenwood
Paul Haddad - Willy the orca
Gary Krawford - The Machine (alias Rockland Stone, villain)
Alyson Court - Lucille (talking California sea lion)
Rachael Crawford - Marlene (marine research assistant)
Neil Crone - Mr. Naugle (head marine biologist)
Michael Fletcher - Randolph Johnson
James Kidnie - Amphonids (toxic waste blob servants of The Machine)
Ron Len - Glen Greenwood
Sheila McCarthy - Annie Greenwood
Andrew Sabiston - P.R. Frickey (unwitting publicist for Stone Industries)
Kevin Zegers - Einstein (talking bottlenose dolphin)
Geordie Johnson - Ben Shore (Eco-activist and Jesse's hero)
Availability[edit]
A double box VHS was released in the UK, but the show has never been released on DVD or VHS in the United States and Warner Bros. has yet to announce any plans for a region 1 (US) DVD release.
The complete series has been released only through Amazon's Instant Video service which was released on October 3, 2011.
Season 1 is now available on iTunes for £14.99
External links[edit]
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Free Willy at Amazon Instant Video Service


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Free Willy film series

Directed by
Simon Wincer (1)
Dwight H. Little (2)
Sam Pillsbury (3)
 Will Geiger(4)
Produced by
Lauren Shuler Donner
Written by
Keith A. Walker (1)
 Corey Blechman (1-2)
 Karen Janszen (2)
 John Mattson (2-3)
 Will Geiger (4)
Music by
Basil Poledouris
Cliff Eidelman
 Enis Rotthoff
Production
   company
Regency Enterprises
Distributed by
Warner Bros. (1993-1997)
Warner Premiere (2010)
Release date(s)
1993 (Free Willy)
 1995 (Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home)
 1997 (Free Willy 3: The Rescue)
 2010 (Free Willy: Escape From Pirate's Cove)
Running time
over 6.5 hours total (as of 2010)
Country
United States
 South Africa
Language
English
Box office
$153,698,625 (1)
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Free Willy is a series of family films from Warner Bros. The first installment, Free Willy, was released on July 16, 1993, the second, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, was released on July 19, 1995, and the third film, Free Willy 3: The Rescue was released on August 8, 1997; these first three films were produced by Lauren Shuler Donner, and distributed by Warner Bros.. The fourth installment, Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove, was directed by Will Geiger, and distributed by Warner Premiere. It was a reboot of the original series and is in no way connected.


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1 Films 1.1 Free Willy
1.2 The Adventure Home
1.3 The Rescue
1.4 Escape From Pirate's Cove
2 Reception 2.1 Public and critical response
3 References
4 External links

Films[edit]
Free Willy[edit]
Free Willy was directed by Simon Wincer and was shot mainly in Mexico City and Portland, Oregon.
Free Willy is a 1993 American family drama film and 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 famous 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 and was also included in the album All Time Greatest Movie Songs, released by Sony in 1999. Jackson also performed songs for the film's first sequel.
The Adventure Home[edit]
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home was directed by Dwight H. Little.
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home is a 1995 family film, directed Dwight H. Little, and released by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment banner. It is a sequel to the 1993 film Free Willy, also starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg.
The film sees protagonist Jesse (Jason James Richter) reunite with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
Free Willy 3: The Rescue, was subsequently released in 1997, making a trilogy. Keiko the Orca does not actually appear in this film unlike the original movie. Willy is played by a robotic double while the Free Willy Keiko Foundation devised a plan to bring him to the Oregon Coast Aquarium where he would be rehabilitated for poor health. Michael Jackson returned to perform the film's songs contributing the theme song "Childhood", which can be heard during the film's credits.
The Rescue[edit]
Free Willy 3: The Rescue was directed by Sam Pillsbury.
Free Willy 3: The Rescue is a 1997 family film directed by Sam Pillsbury, and starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg. Released by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment banner, the film is the second sequel to the 1993 film Free Willy, the first being the 1995 film Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home. The film is also the last with Keiko the orca before he died of pneumonia in 2003.
The features a teenage Jesse (Jason James Richter) and old friend Randolph try to foil an illegal whaler threatening Willy and his pregnant mate.
Escape From Pirate's Cove[edit]
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove, the final film of the series and a remake of the original, was directed by Will Geiger.
The first feature from the Free Willy film franchise for 13 years, Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove stars Bindi Irwin as Kirra who discovers a baby Orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather's rundown seaside amusement park. She embarks on a quest to lead Willy back to his pod.
Reception[edit]
Public and critical response[edit]

Film
Rotten Tomatoes
Metacritic
Free Willy 57% (23 reviews)[2] 79 (14 reviews)[3]
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home 36% (14 reviews)[4] -
Free Willy 3: The Rescue 44% (16 reviews)[5] -
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove - 49% -
Average ratings
46.5%
19.75%

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Free Willy". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
2.Jump up ^ "Free Willy". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
3.Jump up ^ "Free Willy". Metacritic. CNET Networks. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
4.Jump up ^ "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
5.Jump up ^ "Free Willy 3: The Rescue". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
External links[edit]
Free Willy at the Internet Movie Database
The Adventure Home at the Internet Movie Database
The Rescue at the Internet Movie Database
Escape From Pirate's Cove at the Internet Movie Database


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