Blackfish PG-13
Never capture what you can't control.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 12, 2013
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Gabriela Cowperthwaite | |
Composition by | Jeff Beal |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 4 -- Where 2009's THE COVE exposed the theme park chain's role in dolphin kidnapping, abuse and slaughter, BLACKFISH does the same with orcas.
RogerEbert.com
Rating: 4/5 --
Blackfish is a well-edited and intriguing documentary, which delivers its message in a subtle yet memorable way. Shows featuring killer wales will never be seen in the same light again.
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Flick Feast
Rating: 4/5 --
In the wild, orcas live between 50 and a hundred years. In captivity, it's half that. It's simply a strong argument to free all the Willies.
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New York Daily News
Blackfish is a powerful reminder of how willfully ignorant - and how selfish - humanity can be.
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Eugene Weekly (OR)
Rating: B --
Nothing says "family fun" like aquatic murder and animal mistreatment, right SeaWorld?
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The Reader (Omaha, NE)
... a startling, disturbing, moving portrait of the male orca known as Tilikum, who currently resides at SeaWorld Orlando.
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Cinesnark
Rating: 4/5 --
Blackfish is a heartbreaking documentary, forensically constructed by Gabriella Cowperthwaite, about the extreme psychological distress of killer whales kept in captivity and used to entertain crowds at venues such as SeaWorld in Orlando.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
In 2010, Dawn Brancheau, a veteran trainer at the well-known Orlando, FL, water park Sea World, lost her life when she was attacked by Tilikum, a bull orca (or "killer whale") weighing 10,000 pounds who was a regular attraction at the park. What made the incident all the more disturbing was this was not the first time Tilikum had turned on one of his trainers, and that the orca had also caused the death of a trainer in 1991 before he was purchased by Sea World. While orcas will sometimes attack humans in captivity, such incidents are extremely rare in the wild, leading some scientists to question the wisdom of keeping large, intelligent, and sometimes territorial creatures in captivity and expecting them to perform on a regular basis. Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite began researching the lives of orcas in captivity after the death of Dawn Brancheau, and in the documentary BLACKFISH, she offers a powerful and provocative look at a remarkable breed of animals that humans still don't fully understand, and how the financial interests of water parks and resorts may run counter to the best interests of the animals they put on display. Taking its title from a Native American name for orcas, BLACKFISH received its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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- UPC: 876964006170
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