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Free Willy 3: The Rescue
1997
· Movie
· 86 min
D
MEANRANK
54/100
Every rating
44–69
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 44, highest is Kinopoisk on 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain John Wesley and his son, Max, who isn't really pleased about his father's job, but doesn't have the gut to say so. Along the way, Willy reunites with Jesse.
Details
- Director
- Sam Pillsbury
- Writer
- John Mattson
- Studio
- Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions, Regency Enterprises, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
- Released
- 6 August 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $35.0M
- Box office
- $3.4M
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