Whale Rider

  • Drama
  • Family
1/30/2003
101
PG-13

In the ways of the ancients she found a hope for the future.

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Director:
Niki Caro
Writer:
Niki Caro
Revenue:
$41,400,000
Budget:
$8,000,000
  • diving
  • becoming an adult
  • grandparent grandchild relationship
  • tradition
  • loss of loved one
  • ocean
  • whale
  • empowerment
  • new zealand
  • maori tradition
  • chief
  • modern society
  • canoe
  • patriarch
  • stick fighting
  • patriarchy
  • magic realism
  • woman director
  • swimming underwater
  • war dance
  • traditional dance

Videos

Cast

  • Keisha Castle-Hughes
    Paikea Apirana
  • Rawiri Paratene
    Koro
  • Vicky Haughton
    Nanny Flowers
  • Cliff Curtis
    Porourangi
  • Grant Roa
    Uncle Rawiri
  • Mana Taumaunu
    Hemi
  • Rachel House
    Shilo
  • Taungaroa Emile
    Willie
  • Tammy Davis
    Dog
  • Mabel Wharekawa
    Maka
  • Rawinia Clarke
    Miro
  • Tahei Simpson
    Miss Parata
  • Roi Taimana
    Hemi's Dad
  • Elizabeth Skeen
    Rehua
  • Rutene Spooner
    Parekura
  • John Sumner
    Obstetrician

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