Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010)

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010)

Release Date: 23 March 2010 (USA)
Quality: DVDRip.XviD-JBS
Language: English
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Will Geiger
Company: ApolloMovie Beteiligungs, Film Afrika Worldwide
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: Beau Bridges, Mike Falkow, Bindi Irwin, Darron Meyer, Jeanne Neilson, Kevin Otto, Matthew Dylan Roberts
Genre: Family
Watch: Trailer
Size: 699MB

Plot: Dr. Sam Cooper is a veterinarian in Australia. After Sam, a widower, is hospitalised with a broken arm and leg for six weeks, his daughter Kirra (Bindi Irwin) is sent to stay with her maternal grandfather Gus, who operates a run-down amusement park by the sea front in Cape Town, South Africa. Upon arrival, Gus is playing poker while she is met at the airport by Mansa, one of her grandpa's employees. Kirra is initially unhappy about her new home, an old house designed like a pirate ship attached to the amusement park, but she makes friends with a boy called Silfiso. Gus informed Kirra of how he came to end up at the amusement park before the two go on a bike ride.

During a fierce storm, a baby male orca becomes separated from his pod (family), and stranded in the lagoon on Gus' property. The next morning, Kirra discovers the animal. Kirra named the orca Willy, who proves to be a big hit. However, Kirra is concerned that Willy is being over-exposed and not eating. Gus sets Kirra and Silfiso to work in the park, during which time Silfiso and Kirra get on well together. One day, Kirra goes out while her grandpa is asleep and talks to Willy about her parents, before she finally manages to get Willy to eat a fish.

Gus' competitor Rolf Woods learns about the new attraction at Gus' park, and offers to buy Willy; the sum of $500,000 is mentioned, but no deal is made. After much perseverance, Kirra persuades Gus to call the marine rescue centre, to discover that the animal had under-developed echolocation skills and needed his pod, meaning that he would eventually starve and would die if he was returned to the ocean. Kirra does much researching; she and Silfiso make several attempts to feed Willy but fail. One evening, Gus reveals how her mother, after going to college and meeting her father, returned to South Africa and gave Gus money to buy the park, which he lost mostly through gambling. Gus also revealed that he was both too ashamed and broke to go to his daughter's funeral when she died. The following day, Kirra tries again to feed Willy, and this time, she succeeds and even manages to stroke Willy.

Rolf hatches a plot to get the financially distressed Gus to sell Willy at a cheaper price. Rolf hires two men to make Willy sick by feeding Willy fish that have been in anti-freeze; he orders them to inject Willy with anti-freeze if he refuses the fish. The two men sneak into the park by night, but their splashing and shouting waking up Kirra, who comes down to the lagoon to confront the intruders. During the commotion, Gus arrives; Willy bites one of the hired hands on the backside, and the two men are chased off. Gus later goes around to Rolf’s house and angrily accuses him of sending the men to try and poison Willy. Rolf denies it but keeps offering to buy Willy.

Kirra camps out by the lagoon to keep Willy calm after the events of the previous night. Willy wakes her up, Kirra assumed he wanted feeding. He refuses a fish, Kirra strokes him but Willy pulls her into the water and lets her ride him. Kirra and Willy become a double-act at the park, attracting reporters and cameramen. After the show, Gus gives Kirra a bucket of live fish which she used to help develop Willy’s echolocation. Kirra puts a blindflold on Willy while Silfiso throws the fish into the water, hoping that Willy would start using his sonar to find the fish. After a while, Willy manages to learn to use his echolocation, and eats live fish put into the lagoon by Silfiso. In the meantime, Rolf returns to tempt Gus with a lower offer for Willy. Faced with a mounting orca food bill, Gus agrees to sell Willy to Rolf. Gus holds out and gets the originally mentioned half-million, but insists exchange would have to take place ten days later, after Kirra's departure. ~wikipedia~