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    When the Whales Came 1989 POSTER

    When the Whales Came

    1989

    English

    6.2

    ♡ 1

    60%

    83%

    Action

    based on children's book

    beach

    cornwall, england

    Drama

    hermit

    island

    whale

    Clive Rees Clive Rees Director Dexter Fletcher Dexter Fletcher as Big Tim Helen Mirren Helen Mirren as Clemmie Jenkins David Threlfall David Threlfall as Jack Jenkins John Hallam John Hallam as Treve Pender
    A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
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