The Whale

R

Released Dec 21, 2022

1 hr. 57 min.

Drama

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A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

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Critics Consensus

Held together by a killer Brendan Fraser, The Whale sings a song of empathy that will leave most viewers blubbering.

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Audience Consensus

With a heartbreaking story brought powerfully to life by Brendan Fraser's starring performance, The Whale's as hard to watch as it is to look away from.

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Nick

Brendan Frasers performance is lives up to the hype.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/15/23

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Jim P

It was a great movie as far as the content.. We feel the language could have been cleaned up and it would have still been a great movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/28/23

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Andrea

Spectacular film that took us through a range of emotions for full depth of the human experience.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/24/23

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Leo

The 'Whale' was fabulous. Acting by alll characters was well done. Story line touching and deeply analyzes dysfunctional familly.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/22/23

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April

Im not sure how I feel about the movie. The actors were great but it was a depressing and hard to watch him eat.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/21/23

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Susie R

I really liked this movie, it was very moving at the end, had me in tears!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/20/23

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Darren Aronofsky

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Sadie Sink

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Hong Chau

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Ty Simpkins

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Udita Jhunjhunwala

Livemint

Charlie [is] played brilliantly by Brendan Fraser...

Jun 2, 2023

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Jenny Nulf

Austin Chronicle

There’s nothing consciously sinister about THE WHALE’s use of Charlie’s eating disorder (the original play was, in fact, written from experience), but Aronofsky’s adaptation is cruel, not just to Charlie’s character, but to all of them.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 21, 2023

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Wenlei Ma

News.com.au

It’s such a heavy-handed approach that The Whale’s extremity risks alienating the audience from the intention.

Rated: 2.5/5

Feb 6, 2023

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Soham Gadre

Vague Visages

Fraser keeps Charlie’s fully formed humanity at the forefront of The Whale, despite various filmmaking decisions that could flatten his character into a saccharine pity case.

Jan 9, 2024

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Prabhjot Bains

Tilt Magazine

It’s Aronofsky’s most blunt and uninspired work yet— an indulgent and strident slice of misery porn that rides a wave of unearned emotion to its underwhelming conclusion.

Nov 2, 2023

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Christian Eulinberg

InSession Film

If I were to describe this film in one word, it would be melancholy; it is practically flawless, at least in my opinion, and conveys the notion that people are inherently kind...

Sep 23, 2023

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Synopsis

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Screenwriter: Samuel D. Hunter
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Protozoa Pictures
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Language|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 21, 2022, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 21, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.2M
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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