Big Miracle (2012) Full Movie Watch Online

Big Miracle (2012) Full Movie Download

Big Miracle (2012) Full Movie Download

Directed by Ken Kwapis

Produced by

Steve Golin

Michael Sugar

Tim Bevan

Liza Chasin

Eric Fellner

Screenplay by

Jack Amiel

Michael Begler

Starring

Drew Barrymore

John Krasinski

Music by

Cliff Eidelman

  Cinematography

John Bailey

Editing by

Cara Silverman

 Studio

Anonymous Content

Working Title Films

Distributed by

Universal Pictures

Release date(s)

February 3, 2012

Running time 107 minutes

Country United States

United Kingdom

Language English

Budget $30-40 million

Box office $24,719,215

Story

An animal-loving volunteer and a small-town news reporter are joined by a native Alaskan boy to rally an entire community - and

I haven’t yet seen the movie Big Miracle, which dramatizes the rescue of two of these whales, but from what I understand, it focuses almost exclusively on the events in Alaska involving the Inuit community of Barrow who were whale hunters, various government and industry people, and a very passionate Greenpeace wildlife campaigner in Alaska – Cindy Lowry (characterized as Rachel in the movie).  I will, therefore, avoid any comments on how this film blends or blurs fact and fiction in their movie.  I would like to share some of what I went through during those intense days, mostly behind the scenes.  My pack-rat habits have aided this account, as I unearthed the notebook that I kept during this time to refresh some memories.  Anne Dingwall – my supervisor at Greenpeace at the time helped me remember some more. For people who want to learn more about this whole story, I recommend the book “Freeing the whales: How the media created the world’s greatest non-event” by Tom Rose.

By the time this story hit the national news, it seemed the whales had been isolated in their few remaining holes for a week, and observers thought that they could only last for a few more days.  The technical objective was breaking through five miles (8km) of ice between the whales and the open leads in the ocean.  I got a quick education from my colleagues in navigating the often dicey relations between Greenpeace, native Alaskan whale hunters, oil companies, biologists, journalists, and a diverse assortment of officials from the state and federal government and military was going to be equally challenging.

The first obvious solution to this problem was to find an icebreaker that could clear a path through the sea ice to the whales.  I quickly found out that the U.S. Government wasn’t going to be able to help with this.  It only had two ships that might be strong enough for the job; one of them was several hundred miles away, heading away from Barrow and stuck in the ice itself.  The only other Coast Guard icebreaker was undergoing repairs in distant Seattle.  Hopes of scoring a private icebreaker didn’t last long either.  The Amoco oil company had one, but it was guarding a drill ship over 150 miles (240km) away.

From Day 1, I began brainstorming with Ed Simmons, who had been the manager of Greenpeace’s first Rainbow Warrior, about ways to break through the ice or other ways get the whales out.  Other people began calling in from all over the country with their suggestions.  I talked with them all never knowing if the next idea was going to be whacky or brilliant.  These included explosives, a high-speed water drill used to cut concrete, a portable laser, jet pumps, a PASER – particle steam erosion device used for cutting glass and steel, and a mining machine with rotating teeth.  Other approaches we considered were airlifting the whales out on slings, and attracting the whales to freedom with whale sounds.  Some were intriguing, but turned out not to be workable because we couldn’t get the right equipment there in time, they posed too much danger to the whales, and/or they would need more energy to run than would be available on the ice.

We were left with two solid ideas.  One – the Veeco company, which supports the oil industry, was willing to provide a hover barge that could conceivably help break a path through the ice closest to the whales that was less than a foot thick.  The inescapable reality, though, was that we also needed a way to break through a pressure ridge between the whales and the sea that was over 35 feet thick.  If there was no icebreaker available from the U.S. government or industry, we needed to ask the Soviet Union if they had one that could help.

Our initial conversations with the U.S. Government to pursue this latter option were not encouraging.  President Reagan was not known for his love for the Soviet Union, and the idea of asking this Communist giant to send one or more of their ships into U.S. waters to help save two whales seemed absurd.  The U.S.S.R. was killing up to 169 of these grey whales a year – supposedly to provide traditional food for nati

One person calling in said that she had an in with industrialist Armand Hammer, who supposedly had good connections with the Russians.  She called back very frustrated, though, with a report that Mr. Hammer’s secretary had been rude to her.ves on their side of the Beaufort Sea, but Greenpeace had shown only four years before that most of these whales were in fact being used to feed mink in a fur ranch next to the whaling station.  If the U.S. government couldn’t figure out a way to save these whales themselves, then perhaps the Alaskan natives could just go ahead and harvest them to supplement their take of bowhead whales.

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