In small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
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- Kevin WardJuly 2, 2025A spur of the moment trip to Alaska to see the Northern Lights (photo), had me looking for some “Alaska movies” to watch on the plane. I had never even heard of Big Miracle but it has a ton of stars in it, even beyond Barrymore, Krasinski and Bell. And even though Barrymore gets stop billing, this really is a Krasinski led film. He plays a local news reporter in Alaska that stumbles upon a new story of 3 gray whales stuck in the arctic ice and running out of time as their only access to surface air is beginning to freeze over. The story captures the attention of the entire world as environmentalists, news reporters, indigenous peoples, politicians, oil magnates all work together to save the whales—and perhaps exploit the situation for their own advantage. It’s a solid family movie and has a feel good message of putting differences aside in service of doing something good. The best parts are truly about the whale rescue itself, including the side by side montage at the end that shows real footage of the rescue alongside footage from this film. I may need to seek out a documentary on it. Also has an odd Sarah Palin cameo/shoutout/not sure what to call it.
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Big Miracle was released on February 2, 2012.
Big Miracle was directed by Ken Kwapis.
Big Miracle has a runtime of 1h 47m.
Big Miracle was produced by Tim Bevan, Michael Sugar, Eric Fellner, Steve Golin.
In small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
The key characters in Big Miracle are Rachel Kramer (Drew Barrymore), Adam Carlson (John Krasinski), Jill Jerard (Kristen Bell).
Big Miracle is rated PG.
Big Miracle is an Adventure, Drama, Romance film.
Big Miracle has an audience rating of 6.4 out of 10.
Big Miracle had a budget of $40M.
Big Miracle has made $24.7M at the box office.