Dolphin Tale out 14th October – Morgan Freeman Feature
Inspired by an amazing true story DOLPHIN TALE is a film about Winter, a rescued dolphin who has lost her tail in a crab trap, and Sawyer, the 11-year old boy who helps save her life.
Sawyer meets her at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, a marine sanctuary where she lives, and rallies friends and family alike to save Winter by convincing a pioneering doctor to create a brand new tail and by raising enough money to save the sanctuary from closing.
DOLPHIN TALE has a great cast including Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr, and Ashley Judd alongside many wonderful animals. But the real star is Winter who plays herself in the film and today serves as a symbol of courage, perseverance and hope to millions of people.
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Having appeared in some of cinemas best loved films, here Morgan Freeman proves once again he ‘more than’ just a cheap pun on an insurance advert. To celebrate the release, here’s our top 10 Freeman flicks…
| The Shawshank Redemption – 1994 It’s just about everybody’s favourite film and Morgan is superb as the old lag Red who is looking for a bit of redemption himself. Though Oscar nominated, Freeman lost out that year to Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump. |
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| Morgan is a veteran teamed up with rookie cop Brad Pitt as they investigate a series of linked murders. It’s a masterclass in film suspense as the pair inch closer to catching their quarry but why oh why did Pitt look in the box? He must have known it didn’t contain chocolates! |
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| Adapted from a play, Driving Miss Daisy is the story of twenty years in the lives of a reactionary old Jewish woman (Jessica Tandy) and her serene black chauffeur. His gentle manners gradually break down the social barriers between them. Nine Oscar nominations, including Best Actor and Actress show how successful the film was. |
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| You really know you’ve arrived as an actor when you get to play God – literally! Here Morgan gets to show Jim Carrey that having super-powers and running the world isn’t as easy as it appears. The theme would be revisited in the sequel Evan Almighty with Steve Carrell. |
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| Despite being nominated five times, Morgan has only won one Oscar. It was for his performance as ex-boxer Eddie Scarp-Iron Dupris in Clint Eastwood’s multi-award winning fight movie. It’s another classic under-stated performance that just feels like he isn’t acting at all. |
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| In the Christopher Nolan Batman films Morgan plays Lucius Fox, Bruce Wayne’s business manager. As part of his role he supplies Wayne/Batman with all his expensive toys – a sort of modern day Q in the James Bond films. It’s a supporting role but Freeman as ever is pitch-perfect in his performance. |
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| Having played God where do you go? The saintly statesman Nelson Mandela is a pretty good choice and so it was Morgan turned in a convincing portrayal of the man in the sports drama Invictus – the story of how post apartheid South Africa united for the 1995 Rugby World Cup. |
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| Many of us make lists of things we’d like to do before we die and that is the premise of this film starring Freeman and Jack Nicholson. You’d think that the pair of them had done most things in their personal lives, but the film takes a comic/tragic look as they work through list of things to do before they kick the bucket. |
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| How could Morgan not be in Steven Spielberg’s historical slave drama? Not only was his great-great-great-grandmother a Virginia slave who was bought by a Colonel Wright and taken to Mississippi, but he is Morgan Freeman – the finest black actor of his generation! |
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| Morgan played the third penguin from the left in this award winning documentary. Ok so he didn’t but his narration added greatly to the appeal and success of the film. His slow, soothing delivery marks him out as one of the world’s most recognisable voice-overs and that is why he is the pun in the More Than insurance ads. |
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