16-year-old Jesse and old friend Randolph try to foil an illegal whaler threatening Willy and his pregnant mate.16-year-old Jesse and old friend Randolph try to foil an illegal whaler threatening Willy and his pregnant mate.16-year-old Jesse and old friend Randolph try to foil an illegal whaler threatening Willy and his pregnant mate.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total
Peter LaCroix
- Sanderson
- (as Peter Lacroix)
Roger Cross
- 1st Mate Stevens
- (as Roger R. Cross)
Michael Dobson
- Coast Guard
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFrancis Capra, the young actor who played Elvis (Jesse's half-brother) in Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995) was approached to reprise his role in this film. He declined because he felt that the character of Max was too similar to Elvis.
- Crazy creditsSimilar to the last two Free Willy films, the end credits open with "Call 1-800-4-WHALES and learn how you can help Keiko, the whale from FREE WILLY and all the world's whales."
- ConnectionsEdited from Free Willy (1993)
- SoundtracksChina Grove
Written by Tom Johnston (as Tom Johnson)
Performed by The Doobie Brothers
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
By arrangement with Warner Special Projects
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Sam Pillsbury (who, incidently, was born in the US but raised in NZ despite what this database says) left these shores to direct the excellent "Eerie, Indiana" series and a number of thrillers. I don't think this film will feature prominently on his CV. Basically the script keeps to a format and the format has become so stale everyone performs in a by-the-numbers fashion. I get the feeling this movie was made for profit rather than love of the characters. It focuses on a simplistic "message" rather than the more complex problem of looking at "issues".
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,446,539
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $992,651
- Aug 10, 1997
- Gross worldwide
- $3,446,539
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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