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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 
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MCT:June 12, 200814 years old Alyssa (Carly Schroeder) has been living with her Grandmother Lucy (Katharine Ross) so, Alyssa has to go to Bahamas to live with her Dolphin Researcher father named Dr. James Hawk (Adrian Dunbar). Hawk's girlfriend named Tamika (Christine Adams) & her father named Daniel (George Harris). Ali discovers a gift to share with her father to communication with Dolphin.
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MCT: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 with 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. -
MCT:February 8, 2008This an enjoyable movie that is easy to watch for any age group. Were a 14-year-old Alyssa is have troubling time, because she had your Mom died in front her a year ago. So she is living with her grandma now. And Alyssa get into trouble again. So her grandma is that her wits end, so she tell Alyssa her dad is not dead. And take her to meet your dad in the Bahamas were he has a dolphin research lab. And also Alyssa dad doesn't know he has a girl. Went she get their they have a little for a bad time. Because he does know how to be a dad. Also Hawk (her dad) is having trouble of he's own with dolphin research by threatened with closure. Alyssa takes refuge in the sea animals and discovers her innate gift for communicating with the dolphins. And she is the key of saving her dad's research of the dolphins. This movie was a great. Were it teach us that we need to listen & to communicate to each other and the animals around us. Also if like dolphins you like this movie.
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MCT:February 5, 2008
A lovely movie that takes a simple, predictable plot and charms us silly with lovable dolphins. Great for kids and flipper fans. Makes me wanna swim and sun.
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MCT:January 14, 2008
This is a really great movie about a girl who's struggling in life since her mother's death, and she goes to live with her father that she didn't know about, and she falls in love with Dolphin's. It has Beautifull scenery... It takes place in the bahamamas... It makes you wanna go there!
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MCT:January 9, 2008
I loved this movie. It helps that I live in Florida and love dolphins plus the fact that I have visited that area of the Bahamas helped a lot too.
The movie was well written and very enjoyable.
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MCT:August 23, 2007This looks like a spin off of flipper or free willy. Uh sorry, not interested... You've seen one fish movie you've seen them all....
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MCT:August 14, 2007Great movie, really refreshing. If you want to have a relaxing time with your family or boyfriend/girlfriend, I definitely recommend it. The landscape in Bahamas is amazing!!! the sea stuff seems a lot of fun. I wish I could have a vacation to the Grand Bahama island and do the thing Tammy did in the movie! The dolphins are cute but the movie is not all about the dolphin; it's actually much more complicated and smarter. The girl Carly (her another movie Gracie is in theater now)did a great job. She's really a talented actress, better than most of the teen actors (she's good looking too). I think if she keeps shooting good movies like these she's gonna become a pretty big star before she's 20. Another interesting thing is the girl played Julie, Susan's daughter from "desperate housewives" is in this movie too! Overall this is a pretty good movie that worth watching. if you like dolphins, sea, or beautiful scenes, you won't want to miss this one.
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After a three-month bombardment by a blitzkrieg of massively-budgeted Hollywood sequels, many American moviegoers are thirsty for originality. ?Eye of the Dolphin,? starring Carly Schroeder (Firewall, The Lizzie McGuire Movie) contains all of the ingredients necessary to slake that thirst; in fact, this film proves to be as thematically refreshing as the crisp Caribbean waters it photographs. ?Eye of the Dolphin? contains a handful of genuinely memorable scenes, including a game of tic-tac-toe between a dolphin and marine biologist, as well as a moment in which a dolphin attacks an iPod. Furthermore, ?Eye of the Dolphin? is bestowed with underwater cinematography that is truly awe-inspiring.
In addition to Schroeder, ?Eye of the Dolphin? possesses an impressive array of cast members, all of whom provide the film with qualitatively dissimilar performances. Schroeder provides the movie?s finest performance as Alyssa, an angst-ridden adolescent whose anguish will doubtlessly inspire pathos from all but the most stoic viewer. Veteran thespian George Harris (perhaps best remembered as Katanga from ?Raiders of the Lost Ark?) portrays Daniel, a Bahamian inhabitant who furnishes ?Eye of the Dolphin? with an effective dose of comic relief. Katharine Ross is serviceable as Alyssa?s over-enunciating grandmother, although the 67-year-old actress has demonstrated that she is capable of far better performances, most notably in ?The Graduate? and ?Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.?
Ironically, the largest detractor to ?Eye of the Dolphin? is Adrian Dunbar, whose innate Irish intonation audibly begins to leak midway through the movie?s second act. Moreover, Dunbar?s ceaseless scowls and eyebrow raises are dramatically incongruous to the movie?s benign tone.
While Dunbar attempts to recycle enough aluminum cans to collect enough money for acting school, allow this reviewer to conclude by reassuring that ?Eye of the Dolphin? is a fantastic motion picture; scientifically authentic and emotionally heartwarming, it possesses more than enough merits to warrant a ten dollar ticket purchase.
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pkuwinterposted 359 days ago -
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?posted 360 days ago
