Big Miracle

October, 1988. Adam Carlson, a reporter for a local Anchorage television station, is currently in Barrow doing a series of pieces on the "local cultural color" of northern Alaska. While out on the sea ice filming a less than promising piece, he spots off in the distance what ends up being three California gray whales - a mother, father and son - who are literally imprisoned by ice which has surrounded them in the earlier than usual onset of winter. They are looking worse for wear as they have be..

Director: Ken Kwapis,

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance,

Cast: John Pingayak, Ahmaogak Sweeney, John Chase, Ishmael Angalook Hope, Othniel 'Anaqulutuq' Oomittuk Jr., John Krasinski, Andy Daly, Thomas R. Daly, Maliaq Kairaiuak, Jeffrey Evan, Drew Barrymore, Ted Danson, Randy Eledge, Thom Van Dorp, Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Root, Maury Ginsberg, Kelly Lee Williams, Megan Baldino, Kristen Bell, Kathy Baker, Vinessa Shaw, Maeve Blake, Krista Schwarting, Liam Boles, Opal Sidon, Michael Gaston, Ken Smith, Tim Palmer, Wayne Mitchell,