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Whale Rider(2003)
Status: Released
Date: 2003-01-30
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413 Votes
Time: 1h 41m
In the ways of the ancients she found a hope for the future.
Overview:
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
Languages: English, Maori.
Countries:
Germany,
New Zealand
Budget: $8,000,000.00
Revenue: $41,400,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
South Pacific Pictures
ApolloMedia
New Zealand Film Production Fund
Movie: Whale Rider
Top 10 Billed Cast
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Paikea Apirana
Rawiri Paratene
Koro
Vicky Haughton
Nanny Flowers
Cliff Curtis
Porourangi
Grant Roa
Uncle Rawiri
Rachel House
Shilo
Taungaroa Emile
Willie
Tammy Davis
Dog
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