- Andre (film)
Infobox Film | name = Andre
director = George Miller
producer = Donald Kushner, Peter Locke
writer = Harry Goodridge
starring =Tina Majorino Keith Carradine Joshua Jackson
music = Spencer Proffer,Bruce Rowland
cinematography = Thomas Burstyn
editing = Harry Hitner
distributor =Paramount Pictures (USA)
Turner Pictures (internationally)
released =August 17 1994
runtime = 95 min|
language = English
country = USA
imdb_id = 0109120"Andre" is a 1994 feature film starring
Tina Majorino and is about a child's encounter with a seal. The film is an adaptation of the book "A Seal Called Andre" which was based on a true story.Plot
Toni Whitney, a nine-year-old girl, and her
Rockport, Maine family adopt an orphaned baby seal, naming it Andre. Andre is manageable when he is young but as Andre gets older and starts getting into mischief, he antagonizes some of the local fishermen. Toni forms an inseparable bond with Andre and their relationship becomes threatened when the fishermen do not want to deal with Andre's antics any longer.Cast
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Keith Carradine as Harry Whitney
*Chelsea Field as Thalice Whitney
*Joshua Jackson as Mark Baker
*Tina Majorino as Toni Whitney
*Aidan Pendleton as Paula Whitney
*Keith Szarabajka as Billy Baker
*Shirley Broderick as Mrs. McCann
*Andrea Libman as Mary May
*Joy Coghill as Betsy
*Torey (from Dolphin Encounters, Nassau, Bahamas) as Andre the Seal. There were two other sea lions that had parts, named Kalika and PJTrivia
*During the credits, shots from original 16mm films of the real Andre are shown. Andre, who resided in later years at the New England Aquarium in Boston, entertained tourists at
Rockport, Maine every summer until his death onJuly 19 ,1986 [ "Andre the celebrity seal dies," "The New Mexican" (Santa Fe), July 21, 1986, pA-3 ]*Andre is played by a "
sea lion " and not an actual seal.*The book "A Seal Called Andre" (1975), co-written by the seal's owner, Harry Goodridge, describes the true story of Andre.
*The theme song from the movie, sung by
Tyler Collins , was a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts upon its release.References
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