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The Whale
Directed by
Darren Aronofsky
R
2022
1h 57m
Drama
7.6
64%
91%
7.8
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A reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
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Cast of The Whale
Brendan Fraser
Charlie
Sadie Sink
Ellie
Ty Simpkins
Thomas
Hong Chau
Liz
Samantha Morton
Mary
Sathya Sridharan
Dan the Pizza Man
Jacey Sink
Young Ellie
Allison Altman
Young Mary (uncredited)
Lance Oppenheim
Julian (uncredited)
Grace Perkins
Maddie (uncredited)
Wilhelm Schalaudek
Liam (uncredited)
Darren Aronofsky
Director / Producer
Ari Handel
Producer
Brendan Naylor
Associate Producer
Scott Franklin
Executive Producer
Dylan Golden
Associate Producer
Jeremy Dawson
Producer
Robert Pyzocha
Production Design
Mark Friedberg
Production Design
Lisa Scoppa
Set Decoration
The Whale Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Jenny Nulf
There's nothing consciously sinister about THE WHALE's use of Charlie's eating disorder (the original play was, in fact, written from experience), but Aronofsky's adaptation is cruel, not just to Charlie's character, but to all of them.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Fraser delivers the best work of his career.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chris Hewitt
Fraser's choices are so subtly intelligent that we barely notice what amounts to his costume, so attuned are we to the way his Charlie teeters on the brink of life and death.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
Aronofsky has proven he can direct, so what to make of the fact that this film is so hateful and vile?
Detroit News
Adam Graham
The Whale is messy and compromised, but finds its honesty in the emotional core of its lead performance. See it for Fraser, try and drown out the rest.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A murky-looking, claustrophobic exercise in emotionalism at its most trite and ostentatiously maudlin.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
A searing, moving experience.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
In every scene, every moment, practically, Fraser strives for and often succeeds in finding something more than cheap pathos.
The Reveal
Scott Tobias
Most of the conflicts in The Whale are overcooked nonsense, contrived for dramatic impact but divorced from any recognizable reality.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It features one great and a couple of really good performances. But it is not a great movie. I'm not even sure it's much of a good one.
BuzzFeed News
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
What appeared to be a well-meaning film has ended up as part of a long line of art about fat people that ends up trafficking in the same tropes around representing fat people. The Whale is a movie that doesn't know when it should have flinched.
Crooked Marquee
Jason Bailey
The script is absolute drivel, a patently phony work that betrays its roots as a stage play at every turn.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"The Whale" doesn't make a lunge for your emotions. It earns them.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Claudia Puig
Stagy and sometimes overwrought, but it really is a heartbreaking, emotional journey.
The Atlantic
David Sims
I am not opposed to body horror, but the genre is best suited to vulgar ends. The Whale is presenting itself as something noble and, ultimately, uplifting, but it just can't make that sale.
HuffPost
Candice Frederick
The movie might largely be remembered for being somber, an emotion that stays at the forefront of the narrative, but it's optimism that buoys its ending.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
Fraser deserves praise for his buried-under-makeup performance, but that's not enough to keep the movie afloat.
Observer
Rex Reed
Whatever 'The Whale's many imperfections, Brendan Fraser's relentless display of craft and courage is a must see.
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
This chamber piece amounts to a variation of torture porn for highbrows, with a fat suit rather than a meat cleaver as the bringer of cinematic shock.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
For every sunbeam of humanity Fraser lets shine through this soul, the film summons a half-dozen dark clouds to try and dampen it.
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