- Status: Released
- Country: New Zealand
- Audience_rating: 6.4
- Original_title: Whale Rider
- Spoken_languages: English
- Release_date: 2003-01-30
- Runtime: 101
- Genre:
- Drama,
- Family,
- Audience_score: 36
- Production_companies: South Pacific Pictures
- Budget: 8000000
- Revenue: 41400000
- Title: Whale Rider
- Popularity:
- Original_language:
- Imdb_id: 0298228
- Tagline:
Overview : Whale Rider
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people 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.
Casts : Whale Rider
Keisha Castle-Hughes Character (Paikea Apirana)Rawiri Paratene Character (Koro)Vicky Haughton Character (Nanny Flowers)Cliff Curtis Character (Porourangi)Grant Roa Character (Uncle Rawiri)Mana Taumaunu Character (Hemi)Rachel House Character (Shilo)Taungaroa Emile Character (Willie)Tammy Davis Character (Dog)Mabel Wharekawa Character (Maka)Rawinia Clarke Character (Miro)Tahei Simpson Character (Miss Parata) Crew : Whale Rider
Niki Caro Job as : Director.
Witi Ihimaera Job as : Author.
Niki Caro Job as : Screenplay.
John Barnett Job as : Producer.
Lisa Gerrard Job as : Original Music Composer.
Leon Narbey Job as : Director of Photography.
David Coulson Job as : Editor.
Tim Sanders Job as : Producer.
Frank Hbner Job as : Producer.
Releases : Whale RiderUS : 2003-06-06 .
CZ : 2004-02-19 .
AU : 2003-05-08 .
DE : 2003-08-14 .
NZ : 2003-01-30 .