Whale Rider 2002 Watch Full Movie in HD

Keisha Castle-Hughes

24 March 1990, Donnybrook, Western Australia, Australia

Rawiri Paratene

Vicky Haughton

Cliff Curtis

27 July 1968, Rotorua, New Zealand

Grant Roa

2 June 1974, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand

Mana Taumaunu

1989

Rachel House

20 October 1971, Auckland, New Zealand

Taupua Whakataka-Brightwell

Tenia McClutchie-Mita

Peter Patuwai

Rutene Spooner

Riccardo Davis

Apiata Whangaparita-Apanui

John Sumner

14 October 1951, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

1967, Wellington, New Zealand

Witi Ihimaera

7 February 1944, Gisborne, New Zealand

Niki Caro

1967, Wellington, New Zealand

Paikea

Played by: Keisha Castle-Hughes

Koro

Played by: Rawiri Paratene

Porourangi

Played by: Cliff Curtis

Obstetrician

Played by: John Sumner

Sacramento News & Review

The movie's story is a sometimes clumsy but gradually involving coming-of-age story about courage, sexism, past customs vs. contemporary social values and a community and family at odds within themselves.

August 07, 2008

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Newsweek

The filmmaker knows how to seduce an audience without making it feel had. When a movie's this likable, it would take a very tough crowd not to be pleased.

November 01, 2007

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Daily Info

both an effective snapshot of the challenges which modernity brings to indigenous cultures, and a neat illustration of the power of myths to adapt.

June 11, 2013

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Orlando Sentinel

The film is closer to a feminist tract. And, like all propaganda, it wants to do all of your thinking for you.

June 27, 2003

Cinema Crazed

This is what a children's film should be like.

April 29, 2009

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Common Sense Media

Excellent to watch and discuss as a family.

December 29, 2010

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

"Whale Rider" is a mystical, gentle movie that goes beyond the boundaries of the usual coming-of-age film.

June 03, 2005

Paste Magazine

The third act -- where all our predictions come true -- has a quiet dignity and, although it moves from A to B as expected, how it gets there is surprisingly mysterious.

June 03, 2008

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San Francisco Chronicle

[The story] is so simple that the audience gets ahead of it from the beginning.

June 27, 2003

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Variety

Newcomer Castle-Hughes' unaffected, confident turn makes it credible our heroine might retain her determination and self-worth despite serial setbacks.

July 22, 2008

Time Out

Niki Caro roots her characters in a landscape equal parts mundane and boundless, incorporates tantalising sea photography and Lisa's Gerrard's ambient soundtrack, and lifts off into a sublime, Elysian ending.

January 26, 2006

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Houston Chronicle

The most effective and moving female empowerment movie in awhile.

July 03, 2003