Whalefall
Thriller English
Following the death of his father, Jay Gardiner goes diving off the central Coast of California in search of his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale. While trapped inside its belly with only one hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize that the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.
| Cast: | Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, Emily Rudd, Kamy D. Bruder, Mark Meloro Jr., Sam Franich, Nicholas Gould, Laurel Lane Bowen |
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| Director: | Brian Duffield |
| Editor: | Pietro Scalia |
| Camera: | Aaron Morton |
All Guild Reviews of "Whalefall"
Austin Abrams-Josh Brolin Film Fails to Make a Splash
Austin Abrams, a fine actor, does what he can to convey fear in many forms, and Josh Brolin’s rippling-muscled, tattooed frame fits right into this world
In this film, the way to a father’s heart lies literally through a whale’s stomach. Literally. As if Austin Abrams wasn’t put through enough hell in the recent Resident Evil, he returns for Whalefall, adapted from a book, where he spends 90% of the time being tossed around in the belly of a beast which is a sperm whale. It’s an ambitious project for sure, and director Brian Duffield is seriously committed to it, not giving us a break from all that could lie in that giant mammal’s insides, from digestive acids to the remains of things swallowed up by it, to a lot of other floating and hanging stuff that it’s best left to one’s imagination. What it boils down to is Abrams’s Jay being squeezed multiple times between sinewy, slithering, throbbing walls and – you guessed it right – surviving.
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