Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010) on Netflix
PG20101h 41mAdventureDramaFamily
After a storm, an orca calf is stranded in the lagoon at a rundown amusement park in Cape Town. Kirra Grisby, sent to stay with her grandfather Gus, names him Willy.
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Twelve-year-old Kirra Grisby leaves her Australian home for Cape Town to spend the summer with her grandfather Gus at his rundown seaside amusement park while her father is hospitalized. Mansa, one of Gus' employees, meets her at the airport, and she befriends Sifiso, a Xhosa boy. A storm then separates a male orca calf from his pod, and the animal is left in the lagoon beside the park. Kirra finds him, names him Willy, and the calf draws crowds of visitors. Gus' rival, Rolf Woods, offers half a million dollars for the calf. Kirra wants him returned to the sea, but she is told his under-developed echolocation leaves him unable to survive without his pod.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove is the only film in the franchise that brings back no cast members from the first three installments, and the only one in the series to be released straight to video instead of cinemas.
- As in the two earlier Free Willy films, the whale Willy was not played by a real killer whale; the production created him using an animatronic model combined with CGI.
