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10 February 2012
Towards the end of the Ronald Reagan era three whales became trapped in the thickening ice off Alaska. A Greenpeace volunteer, a small-town news reporter and a native Alaskan boy rallied an entire community to try to save them, and millions followed the story on TV.
The whales were finally rescued when a Russian ice-breaker, in a rare moment of superpower co-operation, tore through the ice to give them a passage to safety.
Ken Kwapis's fictionalised recreation of the story with Drew Barrymore as the volunteer is ponderously sincere but it does tell a good story.
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