Dolphin Tale
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Film · TMDB
6.9A sea of animal rescuers — and a lonely boy in need of a friend – nurse an injured dolphin back to health after it loses its tail in a trap.
Released: 2011-09-22113 minDir: Charles Martin SmithDrama, Family
Cast
- Nathan Gamble as Sawyer Nelson
- Cozi Zuehlsdorff as Hazel Haskett
- Harry Connick Jr. as Dr. Clay Haskett
- Austin Stowell as Kyle Connellan
- Morgan Freeman as Dr. McCarthy
- Ashley Judd as Lorraine Nelson
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
6.8/10
26,585 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
81%
Metacritic
64/100
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 4 wins & 4 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Charles Martin Smith
- Written by
- Karen Janszen Noam Dromi
- Produced by
- Richard Ingber Broderick Johnson Andrew A. Kosove
- Starring
- Harry Connick Jr. Ashley Judd Nathan Gamble Kris Kristofferson Cozi Zuehlsdorff Morgan Freeman
- Cinematography
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub
- Edited by
- Harvey Rosenstock
- Music by
- Mark Isham
- Production company
- Alcon Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- September 23, 2011 ( 2011-09-23 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 113 minutes
- Country
- United States
Key dates
- Published
- 15 December 2011
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- children's film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Dolphin Tale 2
- Director
- Charles Martin Smith
- Cast member
- Winter
- Composer
- Mark Isham
- Producer
- Andrew Kosove
- Cinematographer
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Article
Dolphin Tale is a 2011 American family drama film directed by Charles Martin Smith and written by Karen Janszen and Noam Dromi. It stars Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Kris Kristofferson, Cozi Zuehlsdorff in her film debut, and Morgan Freeman. The book and film are inspired by the true story of Winter, a bottlenose dolphin that was rescued in December 2005 off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. In the film, Winter loses her tail after becoming entangled with a rope attached to a crab trap, and must be fitted with a prosthetic one in order to swim naturally again.
The film was released on September 23, 2011, by Warner Bros. Pictures; Dolphin Tale received positive reviews from critics and earned $95.9 million on a $37 million budget. A sequel, Dolphin Tale 2, was released on September 12, 2014.