A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
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Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Dr. McCarthy: Morgan Freeman
• Lorraine Nelson: Ashley Judd
• Dr. Clay Haskett: Harry Connick Jr.
• Sawyer Nelson: Nathan Gamble
• Reed Haskett: Kris Kristofferson
• Mr. Doyle: Ray McKinnon
• Gloria Forrest: Frances Sternhagen
• Hazel Haskett: Cozi Zuehlsdorff
• Bully #1: Nicholas Turner Martin
• Bully #2: Carlos Jorge Guerrero
• Kyle Connellan: Austin Stowell
• Phoebe: Austin Highsmith
• Kat: Betsy Landin
• Rebecca: Juliana Harkavy
• Brittany: Megan Lozicki
• Max Connellan: Jim Fitzpatrick
• Alyce Connellan: Kim Ostrenko
• Donovan Peck: Michael Roark
• Coach Vansky: Rus Blackwell
• Board Member Christina: Denise Durette
• Fisherman: Richard Libertini
• Sandra Sinclair: Ashley White
• Philip J. Hordern: Tom Nowicki
• Board Member Fitch: Marc Macaulay
• Virginia: Vivian Ruiz
• Little Girl’s Mother: Stacy Ann Rose
• Veteran Tim: Kurt Yaeger
• Prosthetic Consultant: Mike Pniewski
• Additional Voices: Joshua Rush

Film Crew:

• Director: Charles Martin Smith
• Original Music Composer: Mark Isham
• Casting: Kerry Barden
• Production Design: Michael Corenblith
• Director of Photography: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
• Co-Producer: David Yates
• Costume Design: Hope Hanafin
• Casting: Paul Schnee
• Executive Producer: Robert Engelman
• Producer: Broderick Johnson
• Producer: Andrew A. Kosove
• Writer: Karen Janszen
• Editor: Harvey Rosenstock
• Writer: Noam Dromi
• Executive Producer: Steven P. Wegner
• Co-Producer: Yolanda T. Cochran
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Bob Munroe
• Producer: Richard Ingber
• Associate Producer: Brad Arensman
• Associate Producer: Carl Rogers

Movie Reviews:

• talisencrw: This was a decent watch, not for cinematic reasons per se but for making the world a better place. I watched this with my son, Julian, and I was pleased with how they took the true story, including the actual dolphin from it, and, especially for kids, promoted environmentalism, caring for animals, etc.–really solid and important aspects that need to be, more than ever, emphasized in the youth of today.

  My only qualms is that I have very mixed emotions about the casting. I know that to get an important environmental message heard, and thus the film watched, you have to incorporate Hollywood megastars. I simply wish this didn’t have to be the case. The story would have come across better with unknown actors–or simply as a sincere documentary without the Hollywood B.S.