Another great movie...and more than a movie about "buddies" though one could claim that the Dolphin and the young hero Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble) are buddies. This is based on a true story. In Florida on his way to summer school a failing student named Sawyer and a beach comber "discover" a dying dolphin on the beach (Winter) and Sawyer calls an animal rescue unit. He and a young girl named Hazel (Cozi Zuehlsdorff) are the motivating factor for the vet (Harry Connick, Jr.), Sawyer's mother (Ashley Judd), a doctor who creates prosthetics (Morgan Freeman) and others to save Winter and the animal hospital as the prosthetic doctor (after several miscues) creates a tail for the dolphin. Kris Kristofferson is also in the movie as a grandfather and mentor. I wish he would have sung something!
Part of the plot is the fact that the animal hospital is in danger of closing because of a lack of money. It would be sold to a hotel developer. As the movie unfolds Sawyer and others organize U Tube publicity to spark interest in school children and adults to save the marine hospital.
To our surprise there were no evil characters in the movie though for a time it seems as if the hotel developer will succeed in closing the hospital. In a heartwarming turn of events, he decides to support the marine hospital.
There is a spiritual side to the movie but it's a little thin. I just wish that characters would be depicted in prayer, in church, or in consultation with spiritual mentors. I'd like to think that it would make the movie even more realistic.
Take the time to see this movie.
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