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Flipper

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Flipper

Original title

Flipper

Year

1996

Running time

96 min.

Country

United States

Director

Alan Shapiro

Screenwriter

Alan Shapiro

Cast

Music

Joel McNeely

Cinematography

Bill Butler

Producer

Universal Pictures, American Films, The Bubble Factory

Genre

Kids. Adventure | Animals. Dolphins

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Flipper

Synopsis

Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, that brings uncle and nephew together and leads Sandy on the summer adventure of a lifetime.

Rankings Position

#138 Best Live-Action Children's Movies

Critics' reviews

"The effectively offbeat casting of Paul Hogan and some impressive underwater cinematography do much to enliven Flipper, an otherwise unremarkable attempt to revive the franchise"

Joe Leydon: Variety
"Alan Shapiroisn't content to focus on aquatic mammalian high jinks. Instead, he must pack in virtually every family movie cliche of the '90"

Mark Caro: Chicago Tribune
"Like the original 1963 movie and the TV series, it expects us to be endlessly amused by a dolphin that does things that are endless but not amusing (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"The premise has been updated as a passable bit of family entertainment with essentially the same modus operandi but with a gentle pro-environmental message"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"Ought to please an undemanding kiddie audience, but Flipper offers little else in the way of excitement or plot."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"The dolphins are charming, which is at least 50 percent of the concept of the film. The flip side is the film's predictability and shallow characters"

Peter Stack: SFGATE

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