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Paul Quarrington (written by) and
Richard J. Lewis (written by) ...
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6 October 1995 (USA) more
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Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation... more | add synopsis
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4 wins & 4 nominations more
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Dustin Hoffman Believes In Barney's Version
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Weird, wacky and quite frankly, plain boring. more (10 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Maury Chaykin | ... | Desmond Howl | |
| Cynthia Preston | ... | Claire Lowe (as Cyndy Preston) | |
| Paul Gross | ... | Daniel Howl | |
| Jennifer Dale | ... | Fay Ginzburg-Howl | |
| Kenneth Welsh | ... | Kenneth Sexstone | |
| Blu Mankuma | ... | Mookie Saunders | |
| Alan Jordan | ... | Sal Goneau | |
| Tom Lavin | ... | Monty Mann | |
| Jim Byrnes | ... | Dewey Moore | |
| Deborah Duchene | ... | Bobby Sue | |
| Paul Quarrington | ... | Pete the Bartender | |
| Janne Mortil | ... | Star | |
| Suzanne Ristic | ... | Monty's Wife | |
| Roman Podhora | ... | Prison Guard | |
| Sherri Wong | ... | Groupie |
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This girl looks under age, Des. Could mean prison.
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That seems a heavy price to pay for a youthful appearance.
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Song Of Flight more
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Whimsically weird story from Canada about a washed up rock star slobbing away at his reclusive mansion located by the sea. If the sight of seeing Maury Chaykin with no clothes on frightens you, then watching this film is not advised. Unfortunately there is not much else to persuade you to watch this quirky oddball film anyway. Chaykin plays the aforementioned slob who dives into his slimy, dirt filled swimming pool and creates what he calls 'whale music', using his huge sound decks installed at his house. Hardly anyone visits, although lodger Cyndy Preston keeps him company and attempts to clean up his lifestyle. Other secondary characters crop up to inject some stimulation into the story, but neither of them have anything interesting to say anyway. An occasional insert of Chaykin's son (played by Paul Gross) having a good time in a brothel doesn't make any sense except to maybe refer to Chaykin's heydays of been a rock star. As Chaykin slowly becomes more and more strange he becomes affiliated with the idea of playing his music out loud to the whales, on the beach besides his home. That's about what happens really but the emphasis seems to be on style rather than substance, but that's not good when there is no substance whatsoever. What is done excellently is the use of location, not surprising really, considering the photography was done by Vic Sarin, who directed Gross and Chaykin in the superb Cold Comfort (1989).