Adrian Dunbar, Carly Schroeder, Christine Adams

Alyssa, a troubled 15 year old girl, finds her world turned upside-down when she is expelled from the 9th grade in Los Angeles. She is forced to go live with her father, a man who she has never met wh...( read more  read more... )o works as a dolphin research scientist on a remote island in the Bahamas. Their conflicting personalities make it difficult for the two to form a meaningful relationship until the local government tries to turn the research facility into a tourist attraction.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Michael D. Sellers

Release Date: April 21, 2007

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DVD Release Date: January 8, 2008

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  • April 4, 2008
    Fourteen year old Alyssa (Carly Schroeder: "The Lizzie McGuire Movie", "Firewall" ) has been living with her Grandmother (Academy AwardŽ Nominated Katharine Ross) since the death of her mother a year ago.

    Troubled and lost, it is decided she should go to the Bahamas to live wi...( read more)th the father she never knew she had. Caught in the difficult realization of having a father, coupled with the adjustment to island culture, she seeks refuge in the discovery of the astonishing gift she has for communicating with dolphins. But when the powers-that-be threaten to close down her father's dolphin research facility, it is Alyssa and her wild cetacean friend who hold the key. There is so much natural beauty in the film and Eye of the Dolphin also kept my interest with character development and story line. The film depicts another aspect of interaction between humans and wild dolphins when it shows the tour boat captain bringing in tourists, then feeding the dolphins and letting his tourists swim with them. This type of "food provisioning habituation" of dolphins by tour operators is another thing the film, through Hawk, seems to be against. It certainly doesn't seem to be promoting it. The combination of Animals interacting with humans in family films has always been appealing to audiences and Carly Schroeder has both charisma and a genuiness about her that comes across beautifully on the big screen. But there is much more to this values based film, one that all parents with "tweens" and/or teens should love. Eye of the Dolphin is a true family drama about a parent and a child discovering each other and about communication. It also reminds me of some of the old family entertainment that we all watched as kids, Flipper and Swiss Family Robinson come to mind. The film has plenty of under water and dolphin scenes. A "must see" family film.
  • October 23, 2007
    A harmless parade of seaside cliches.
  • April 21, 2009
    It is slow, but relaxing and very good
  • April 14, 2009
    I own it, so I might as well see it once.
  • February 26, 2009
    a great movie and story also loved the dolphins and the shots where it was filmed.
  • February 2, 2009
    it is such a beautiful movie
  • January 17, 2009
    here in new zealnd it has a "M" rating but don't like put u off / it's like free willy .
    but i think u will injoy it more
  • December 10, 2008
    Nice movie for a rainy sunday afternoon. The story is very simple with ofcourse a happy ending.
  • November 7, 2008
    sounds interesting, especially because I like dolphins. :)
  • August 5, 2008
    The message is good but unfortunately it moves slowly.

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  • bssmith4
    January 17, 2009
    here in new zealnd it has a "M" rating but don't like put u off / it's like free willy .
    but i think u will injoy it more
  • pkuwinter
    August 14, 2007
    oh.. well... i guess some captivities is ok. and i don't think it's possible to have no captivities at all...like universities... they do keep all kinds of animals don't they?
    well, maybe they can set up a research center in Bahamas like the guy in the movie did and enjoy some Caribbean sunshine~

    I did hear the sea worlds keep dolphins hungry to do tricks for food... that's evil.
  • chalaye916
    August 13, 2007
    What is everyone's position on dolphin captivity? Personally, I believe that a limited mount of dolphin captivity is necessary in order to create and enhance public awareness of dolphins.

    So, what does everyone think?

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