Dolphin Tale Page #2

Synopsis: A lonely and friendless boy finds and untangles a hurt dolphin that is caught in a crab trap. He becomes very attached to the dolphin when the tail must be taken off to save the dolphin's life. The boy believes the dolphin would be able to swim normally if it was given a prosthetic tail.
Genre: Drama, Family
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
PG
Year:
2011
113 min
$65,099,999
Website
2,105 Views


One day he just shows up and now

he thinks he owns the place.

- I should just...

- Where are you going?

Don't you wanna see the dolphin?

Isn't that why you came?

You're the boy from the beach, right?

- Uh...

- Okay. But don't tell my dad.

He doesn't like civilians

near the sick ones.

How'd you get in here anyway?

Uh... The back door was unlocked.

- Oh, shoot.

- Unh!

It's my job to keep it locked

but I always forget.

Come on.

Is all this for the dolphin?

Winter? No, she can't eat this yet.

She can barely move.

I named her that.

We had a Summer and Autumn.

They got put back in the ocean.

I figure season names are good luck.

These were for the other dolphins,

but since they were on the floor...

...now they're for turtles.

We're picky about what the dolphins eat.

We get them from the same place

as restaurants.

My dad says they eat better than we do.

That is if you like sushi, which I hate.

You don't talk much, do you?

And these are the upstairs pools,

where our dolphins are.

And that's Krista and Panama.

Wave.

What?

Wave.

Pretty smart, huh?

Do you know that dolphins

need to be in a pool with other dolphins?

It's a law, because they're so social.

Like us. Or me, anyway.

Come on.

She hasn't moved since she got here.

She hasn't even opened her eyes.

Ooh!

Hazel.

Hi, Phoebe.

Who's that? You know your dad doesn't

like people back here, honey.

I know, but he's the one

who got the ropes off her.

He just wanted to see how she's doing.

She's not good.

There's a lot of dead tissue.

Circulation to her tail was cut off

for quite a long time.

Okay. Thanks.

Tweety Bird.

Quick, you gotta go. Don't tell Dad.

Oh, hey.

I'm Hazel, by the way.

Like the eye color?

Oh.

Sawyer.

I'm home, Sawyer.

Ah! Sawyer.

How many times do I have to ask you,

ple...

Come on, son. Let's go to bed.

- What?

- Come on.

Homework, tomorrow.

Take the sentences, diagram them.

Separate out what?

The prepositional phrases.

- Looks like it's just getting worse.

- I got it.

Well, the circulation was cut off

for so long.

What do you think is the problem?

We've done everything we can for her.

It's just a massive infection.

Increase the topical antibiotics?

They're not really working.

There's just too much dead tissue.

Poor thing.

It just looks like she's giving up.

We can't make her wanna live. She's

gonna have to do that part on her own.

Hey. Hey. Go. Shoo. Stop it.

Stop. Let go.

Go. Go. Shh.

Stop it. Go. Get out of here.

Hey.

Come here.

Come over here.

Now who are you?

How did you get in here?

Dad, Dad.

He's the boy from the beach, remember?

Hazel, you know the rules.

Okay? No one is allowed

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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