AUGUST 24: AWARD WINNING MOVIE: EYE OF THE DOLPHIN DIVES INTO THEATERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY!
August 12, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
Expelled from high school in Los Angeles, 15 year old Alyssa is forced to live with her father, a crusty dolphin research scientist in the Bahamas who has no time in his life for an unruly teenager. After their personalities clash Alyssa feels like a prisoner on the isolated island — but when she forms an unexpected friendship with an orphaned wild dolphin, she finds that she and her special friend have the power to bring hope to the impoverished people of her new home. Opening in theaters across the country on Friday, August 24th!
The PERFECT movie for teen girls and their friends - or a father daugther outing!
This movie isn't a "little girl movie" - it addresses family issues, environmental issues and the emotions of teen girls.
Your 13 - 15 year old girl will connect with Alyssa (Carly Schroeder), love the dolphins and understand the environmental issues addressed in this movie.
THE STORY
Fourteen year-old Alyssa (Carly Schroeder) has been living with her grandmother Lucy (Katherine Ross) since the death of her mother a year ago. It’s been a tough year for both of them and Lucy decides it’s time for Alyssa to go to the Bahamas to live with Hawk (Adrian Dunbar), dedicated dolphin researcher and the father she never knew she had.
Alyssa’s arrival on the island comes at a decisively inconvenient time for Hawk, who is busy fighting greedy politicians and “experts” who are determined to turn his research center into a tacky tourist attraction. It’s a prickly relationship between Hawk and Alyssa, but Tamika (Christine Adams), Hawk’s girlfriend, and Daniel (George Harris), Tamika’s father, smooth the way.
Alyssa soon adjusts to island life and discovers the gift she shares with her father for communicating with dolphins, a skill which leads her into a powerful relationship with a wild dolphin which her father, for legitimate scientific reasons, cannot condone. But when the powers-that-be threaten to close down her father’s research stations, it is Alyssa and herwild friend who hold the key, and have the power to bring all parties together.
Quick Facts
Written by 3 time Emmy winner Wendell Morris from a story by the film’s director Michael Sellers, “Eye of the Dolphin”
It's a tale of love, spirituality, and redemption that crosses generations, cultures, and even species.
The film delivers an intelligent, cross-cultural spiritual punch reminiscent of “Whalerider”, but with humor and edginess, particularly in the early Los Angeles scenes, that give it a very unique flavor.
Most of the film takes place in the Bahamas, and features some very smart dolphins, spectacular locations—above water and below
Carly Schroeder: first-rate ensemble cast anchored by star-in-the-making Carly Schroeder, who played the lead in the Independent Spirit award winning “Mean Creek” in her first feature outing, and stars in the critically acclaimed “Gracie” directed by Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim.
Adrian Dunbar: Neil Jordan favorite Adrian Dunbar (“Richard III”, “The Crying Game”)
Katherine Ross: Academy Award Nominee Katharine Ross (“Donnie Darko”, “The Graduate”)
George Harris: (“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "Layer Cake”, “Black Hawk Down”)
Jane Lynch (“Forty Year Old Virgin”, “A Mighty Wind”, “Collateral Damage”)
Christine Adams (“Batman Begins”)