Whale RiderMark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, family |
Year | 2003 |
Country | New Zealand , Germany |
Premiere | |
Budget | $3 500 000 |
Box | in world | $41 442 113 | USA | $20 779 666 | In other countries | $20 662 447 |
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DVD | 28.09.2006 |
Duration | 02:19 |
Storyline
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.