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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Essentially a glorified Flipper episode. It's about the friendship between a 12-year-old boy, Jesse (Jason James Richter), and a beautiful killer whale named Willy, who has been placed in a marine park so that he can become a trained performer. When Willy pushes his rubbery nose to the edge of the tank, he's every kid's dream pet: sleek and exotic yet huggable, too. The story would seem to be heading toward Jesse's realization that it's a crime to keep a creature like Willy in a tank. Instead, the film puts the hard sell on us; it has the villainous marine-park owners try to kill Willy for the insurance money. This raises a question: If they had treated the whale better, would Jesse have even thought of setting him free?
Posted Jul 30, 1993
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