Flipper

Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks…

• Director:Alan Shapiro
• Genre:Adventure / Family
• Runtime:91 minutes

Cast

Elijah Wood : Sandy Ricks
Paul Hogan : Porter Ricks
Jonathan Banks : Dirk Moran
Robert Deacon : Bounty Fisherman #1
Ann Carey : Fisherman’s Wife

Sandy Ricks (Elijah Wood) is sent off for the summer to stay with his uncle Porter (Paul Hogan) in the seaside town of Coral Key. While out on Porter’s fishing trawler, the two meet Porter’s arch enemy, Dirk Moran (Jonathan Banks). Nearby, a pod of dolphins is frolicking near Dirk’s boat. As a big game fisherman, Dirk hates just about every other fish eating animal on earth. He shoots at the dolphins because they are eating the fish that he wanted his charter customers to catch. Many escape, but Flipper is separated from the main pod.

One night, Sandy, who plans to return to his home in Chicago, sets off for the docks. While there, he kicks a Pepsi can into the water. Flipper tosses it back. Sandy repeats this trick several times and begins to feel a connection with the dolphin. Then his ferry arrives. Porter wakes up to find his nephew missing; a neighbor tells him what happened. Porter catches up with the ferry and brings Sandy back to Coral Key. The next morning, they find the devastation left by a hurricane. Porter goes for supplies, leaving Sandy to fix what he can. Sandy is distracted from his work by Flipper. Flipper then meets a girl named Kim (Jessica Wesson), who tells Sandy that Flipper is lucky to have survived on his own this long, especially with a fearsome hammerhead shark named Scar in the area, who has been terrorizing Coral Key for a long time. While playing, Kim explains that he’ll need fish. Sandy starts his own amusement park called the Flipper Show and charges one fish for admission.

Porter arrives home and is furious when he finds out that Sandy has been playing with the dolphin rather than doing what he was meant to, and decides to teach him a lesson by letting him smoke cigars until he gets sick. Shortly after this, the sheriff of Coral Key (Isaac Hayes) arrives and explains they cannot keep the dolphin. The next day, Flipper is caught by Dirk Moran’s men. Porter cuts the rope to release the net. Flipper escapes, but his subsequent and prolonged absence from the area causes Sandy and Kim to set out after him in a dinghy. The two discover a group of people dumping toxic waste into the sea. Unfortunately, the people are too far away to identify. Read more

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