MOVIEmeter
Top 5000
Up 66 this week

Big Miracle (2012)

 -  Drama | Romance  -  3 February 2012 (USA)
6.3
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 6.3/10 from 9,894 users   Metascore: 61/100
Reviews: 59 user | 117 critic | 28 from Metacritic.com

In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend - a Greenpeace volunteer - on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.

Director:

Writers:

(screenplay), (screenplay), 1 more credit »
Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 10000 titles created 3 months ago
 
a list of 2658 titles created 04 Jun 2012
 
a list of 1140 titles created 9 months ago
 
a list of 43 titles created 20 Jan 2012
 
a list of 5988 titles created 07 Sep 2011
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Big Miracle (2012)

Big Miracle (2012) on IMDb 6.3/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Big Miracle.
1 nomination. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

The Vow (2012)
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  

A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.

Director: Michael Sucsy
Stars: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Jessica Lange
Comedy | Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  

A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.

Director: David Frankel
Stars: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt
The Notebook (2004)
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.

Director: Nick Cassavetes
Stars: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Ryan Gosling
Up in the Air I (2009)
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  

With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him.

Director: Jason Reitman
Stars: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Upside Down I (2012)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  

Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love.

Director: Juan Solanas
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

Director: Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow
The Reader (2008)
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Director: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Jeanette Hain, Kate Winslet
Drama | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  

A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Stars: Dev Patel, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.

Director: Adam Shankman
Stars: Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote
Jane Eyre (2011)
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.

Director: Cary Fukunaga
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot
Remember Me (2010)
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  

A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder.

Director: Allen Coulter
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Caitlyn Rund, Moisés Acevedo
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 50's Wellesley girls to question their traditional societal roles.

Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
John Pingayak ...
...
John Chase ...
Roy
Ishmael Angalook Hope ...
Bud
Othniel 'Anaqulutuq' Oomittuk Jr. ...
...
...
Thomas R. Daly ...
Maliaq Kairaiuak ...
Jeffrey Evan ...
...
...
Randy Eledge ...
Thom Van Dorp ...
...
Edit

Storyline

An animal-loving volunteer and a small-town news reporter are joined by a native Alaskan boy to rally an entire community - and eventually rival world superpowers - to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Written by Universal Pictures

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Genres:

Drama | Romance

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for language | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Country:

|

Language:

Release Date:

3 February 2012 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Everybody Loves Whales  »

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$7,760,205 (USA) (3 February 2012)

Gross:

$20,113,965 (USA) (30 March 2012)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

| |

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

The character Governor Haskell was named Steve Cowper in real life. Kelly Meyers was really Bonnie Mersinger. See more »

Goofs

When the Green Peace activist dives under the ice in a wetsuit, she has red thermal gloves on. While submerged and using her knife to cut away the net on the baby whale's fluke, her bare hands are visible. When she surfaces, the red gloves are back on again. See more »

Quotes

Adam Carlson: I think Barrow might have one great story left in her.
See more »

Crazy Credits

During the credits, on the left side are scenes from the movie characters and on the right side, archive footage of the real people. See more »

Connections

References The Flintstones (1960) See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

See more (Spoiler Alert!) »

User Reviews

 
Well Executed Story For Both Adults and Kids
4 February 2012 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Yes, there were simplistic clichés, but for a PG-rated movie and the confines therein, Big Miracle is about as good as it can get. The Inupiat people, the reporters, the extraction industry - all sides were treated with a degree of nuance. The take-away message was really important too - that you can accomplish things with people you don't agree with or even like. And we really enjoyed the efforts made to set the film properly in its late 80s period.

I disagree with the other reviews that found the special effects lacking. I don't think they detracted from the story, which in the end was quite compelling.


28 of 38 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Fred, Wilma and BAM-BAM?! eppichs
I hated Drew Barrymore oo0smily0oo
Where's Pebbles? planetiowa
Great movie, packed theater, jeez have a heart! newmoonmg
the 80s yankeesdefeatredsox
John Krasinski FlonkertonChamp
Discuss Big Miracle (2012) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page