Film · Drama, Family
Whale Rider (2003)
In the ways of the ancients she found a hope for the future.
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Māori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
- Director
- Niki Caro
- Writers
- Witi Ihimaera, Niki Caro, Joan Scheckel
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language
- English
- Release date
- January 30, 2003
Cast
Keisha Castle-HughesPaikea Apirana
Rawiri ParateneKoro
Vicky HaughtonNanny Flowers
Cliff CurtisPorourangi
Grant RoaUncle Rawiri- Mana TaumaunuHemi
Rachel HouseShilo
Taungaroa EmileWillie
Tammy DavisDog- Mabel Wharekawa-BurtMaka
- Rawinia ClarkeMiro
- Tahei SimpsonMiss Parata
- Roi TaimanaHemi's Dad
- Elizabeth SkeenRehua
Rutene SpoonerParekura
John SumnerObstetrician
Jane O'KaneAnne
