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Movie Review

‘Big Miracle’ is a whale of a tale, and one worth cheering

By Janice Page

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 03, 2012

*** Big Miracle If this movie is to be believed, the most riveting and important story of the late 1980s was three migrating California gray whales stranded beneath miles of ice far above the Arctic Circle. Luckily the film needs only to entertain, and that it does thoroughly, with minimal preaching. Praise be. Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star - along with those animatronic whales, of course. (103 min., PG) (Janice Page)

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