Whale Rider

Whale Rider

Released on
Drama, Family
Runtime
101 mins
(390 votes)

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Cast

  • Keisha Castle-Hughes
  • Rawiri Paratene
  • Vicky Haughton
  • Cliff Curtis
  • Grant Roa
  • Mana Taumaunu
  • Rachel House
  • Taungaroa Emile
  • Tammy Davis
  • Mabel Wharekawa
  • Rawinia Clarke
  • Tahei Simpson
  • Roi Taimana
  • Elizabeth Skeen
  • Rutene Spooner
  • John Sumner
  • Jane O'Kane

Director

  • Niki Caro

Producers

  • Tim Sanders
  • Frank Hübner
  • John Barnett

Screenwriter

  • Niki Caro

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