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Whale Rider (2003)

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Year of U.S. Release: 2003

Starring: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Rawinia Clarke, Tammy Davis, Taungaroa Emile, Grant Roa, Tahei Simpson, Elizabeth Skeen, Roi Taimana.

Director: Niki Caro

Distributor: Newmarket Films

Genre(s): Drama

U.S. Release Date: June 06, 2003

U.S. DVD Release Date: October 28, 2003

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for brief language, a momentary drug reference.

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Plot Summary:

One young girl dared to confront the past, change the present and determine the future. On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people—or Whangara iwi—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.

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