When the Whales Came

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Paul Scofield
The Birdman

David Threlfall
Jack Jenkins

Helen Mirren
Clemmie Jenkins

Jeremy Kemp
Mr. Wellbeloved

John Hallam
Treve Pender

Barbara Ewing
Mary Pender

Dexter Fletcher
Big Tim

Nicholas Jones
Vicar

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Michael Morpurgo
novel Why the Whales Came

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Description: When the Whales Came is an English film that powerfully and poetically speaks to the communal dimension of our responsibility to the natural world. It is directed by Clive Rees with a screenplay by Michael Morpurgo from his 1985 novel. The setting is Bryler, one of the isles off the southwest coast of England, in 1914. Daniel (Max Rennie) and Gracie (Helen Pearce) are best friends in this small community where the struggle to make ends meet is arduous. Daniel's creative spirit and natural curiosity are stifled by his abusive father and an authoritarian schoolmaster. He comes into his own identity when he and Gracie befriend t ... (more)