Free Willy 3: The Rescue
1997 · Movie · PG · 86 min · ★ 6.1 · 49% critics
Years after their last adventure, a teen joins an orca research crew and finds the whale he once bonded with now in danger from illegal whalers. As tensions rise at sea, unlikely allies must decide where they stand while trying to protect the pod and stop the hunt.
Also known as Free Willy 3 The Rescue
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Details
- Years
- 1997
- Release date
- 1997-08-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Critic score
- 49/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 (379 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a family-friendly, ocean-set adventure with an animal-protection message and some darker tension than earlier entries; Not for you if you dislike predictable sequels or want constant whale-centered scenes like in Andre.
Pros: family-friendly message; real tension at sea; stronger villains | Cons: predictable story beats; uneven middle stretch; less whale focus
Themes
- ship
- whale
- friends
- killer whale
- whaler
Cast & crew
Jason James Richter
as Jesse
August Schellenberg
as Randolph Johnson
Annie Corley
as Drew Halbert
Vincent Berry
as Max Wesley
Patrick Kilpatrick
as John Wesley
Tasha Simms
as Mary Weslay
Peter LaCroix
as Sanderson
Stephen E. Miller
as Dineen
Ian Tracey
as Kron
Matthew Walker
as Captain Drake
Directed by Sam Pillsbury