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Free Willy
Directed by Simon Wincer
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit… From TMDB
196 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 29, 2026 · How this works
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| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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Free Willy is a 1993 family adventure drama film, directed by Simon Wincer, starring Jason James Richter, Keiko and Lori Petty.
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60 of 196 · most liked first“The Good Whale” released its final episode. This six-part series tells the story of the experiment to return Keiko, the star of the movie “Free Willy,” to the ocean. Listen to the entire incredible story: nyti.ms/4gRPp4W
neutral · AI labelView post →Seven film titles that contain spoilers… 7. Free Willy 6. Lone Survivor 5. There Will Be Blood 4. And Then There Were None 3. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot 2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 1. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain
neutral · AI labelView post →I was today years old when I realized the title of the movie "Free Willy" refers to the concept of free will.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the '90s, "Free Willy" fans demanded the release of the movie’s real-life star. But first, Keiko had to become healthy and be trained to survive in the wild. But it wasn't so simple. As one trainer said: "That's not a killer whale, that's a Golden Retriever." nyti.ms/4icsItY
neutral · AI labelView post →People mostly like Orcas because of that film - Free Willy. But, as a marine biologist, let me tell you right now that Orcas are massive cunts.
negative · AI labelView post →Disappointed FREE WILLY didnt use this original end of movie freeze frame-
neutral · AI labelView post →as a side note, they apparently plan to reboot Free Willy and boy that movie did NOT make it clear that orcas are serial killers
neutral · AI labelView post →They are perfect predators. Free Willy might be the most successful propaganda film of all time
negative · AI labelView post →Took this photo of Miette being cute and realized it kinda looks like a Free Willy movie placement ad.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just saw someone post about Moby Dick and it unearthed a memory from my twenties when I was dating a lawyer MUCH older than me who wouldn’t read Moby Dick because he didn’t like whales. I was like “it’s not really about a whale,” and he went on about disliking the movie Free Willy.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sad to hear that Michael Madsen has died aged 67. I met him at the Kill Bill: Vol. 2 UK press conference in 2004. He also starred in Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, The Doors, Species, Die Another Day, Sin City, Scary Movie 4, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm old enough to remember "Free Willy", and I don't need some half-assed attempt to redo the movie in real life.
negative · AI labelView post →So in high school in the 90s we had a crazy old art teacher who was obsessed with Free Willy. Entire classroom was full of film tie in merchandise and she would wear hand made Free Willy sweaters all the time. Our class final was we watched Free Willy and drew a picture of the box art.
neutral · AI labelView post →mickey 17 sucked ass!!!!!!!!! the concept had so much potential as an existentialist sounding board and then the entire back half of the movie was just Free Willy about a Grub!!!!!!!!!!!! its lavish sci-fi trappings betray its barebones characters and setting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck!!!!!!!!!
negative · AI labelView post →I'm actually surprised we didn't get a Free Willy movie BECAUSE of Blackfish, the concept of freeing an orca from a marine park would have resonated in a post "everyone hates SeaWorld now" world.
neutral · AI labelView post →This makes Free Willy a completely different movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →me: wanna see me Free Willy? my wife: the movie? me: the movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Free Willy, a movie my mother loved so much that when Free Willy 2 came out she told my sister I wanted to see it, me that my sister wanted to see it and my dad that the kids really wanted to see it all so she could con us into agreeing to go to the theater opening weekend.
positive · AI labelView post →Do your #ttrpg discussions go off on wild tangents? We're recording some Extra Roll tonight and we just spent 30 minutes on the merits of the movie Free Willy
neutral · AI labelView post →Change a movie by adding a word: Free Willy Nelson
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone has that one movie they love (or several) with a Rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes. Orca's one of mine. I can't hate a movie with Ennio Morricone going this hard with his compositions, with Free Willy over here going on the warpath to kill Richard Harris. That's hard as fuck.
positive · AI labelView post →"Free Willy" A movie about freeing a whale filmed with a captive whale who... was not free'd.
neutral · AI labelView post →Moxxie: Sir, Millie is out tonight, I’m planning to watch an earth movie called Free Willy, do you want to join me? Blitzo: holy fucking shit, hell yes Moxxie!! *later* Blitzo: why the fuck are we watching a movie about a whale! I thought we were gonna watch porn!
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway idk why I was thinking about this at this moment. When I was a kid, I had a Free Willy phase. I saw the movie and wanted to become a marine biologist and move to the Pacific Northwest. (Half of that came true.) It was the other big phase I had as a kid, along with astronaut.
positive · AI labelView post →add “between my legs” to a movie title Free Willy Between My Legs
neutral · AI labelView post →You know the movie Free Willy. But do you know the story behind its star? The SFF Bestiary dives into how Keiko the orca also found his freedom: reactormag.com/the-other-ha...
neutral · AI labelView post →They should’ve called the fourth Free Willy movie “Four Willy”
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched Free Willy and I totally forgot how funny a lot of the orca noises are, by the end of the movie our couch was an entire chorus of stoned autistic gays whining and wheezing like killer whales
positive · AI labelView post →I watched Killer Whale, the new horror movie that's basically The Shallows meets Free Willy. Don't make the same mistake I did. Stare at the wall for 90 minutes instead and you'll feel better than you would if you watched this shit.
negative · AI labelView post →Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film. Free Willy Wonka
neutral · AI labelView post →A few quick words about Michael Madsen, *that scene*, Tarantino knowing exactly how to use him in every film they did together, Lee Marvin fans, and the art of playing tough guys even if you once played the dad in 'Free Willy.' www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
neutral · AI labelView post →I just realized 20 something years later that they spoiled the ending of the movie "Free Willy" on the cover of the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Please does anyone remember the movie Free Willy
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember the movie "Free Willy?" Man, that's a forgotten peak-90s film.
positive · AI labelView post →It was the year 1993. Every man, woman and child in America had the same mission. Make a dick joke about the movie title Free Willy.
neutral · AI labelView post →oh yeah the entire film series is based off a book series. the third is called Hell’s Aquarium. it’s Free Willy with giant sharks
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s an animatronic that honestly doesn’t look like a bot in this piece lol. It’s more obvious IRL by proportions and texture. Though Free Willy had an actual whale actor (Keiko), some scenes would use an animatronic for some scenes. #animatronic #orca #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →Everybody screaming FREE WILLY! FREE WILLY!!! but I take out my penis, and free willy, and suddenly I'M the bad guy getting kicked out of the movie theater!
neutral · AI labelView post →The @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social just dropped another podcast! This is Peculiar Movie Club, where we discuss movies that jive with books we are reading--most recently, Killer Whale Journals, and the movie choice: FREE WILLY! #podcast #books #movies #killerwhales open.spotify.com/episode/4bmV...
neutral · AI labelView post →He thought AUKUS were in Free Willy! "People say they used more than one in that film, can you believe it! All of these great big black and white fish learning lines..fantastic how do they do it, I'll have to ask Leon and see what he thinks, great guy the greatest- I don't believe it big black and w
neutral · AI labelView post →Free Willy stars a whale but it is really a heroic dog movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I have a pitch for a movie that’s basically a remake of Free Willy only the captive whale is a human, the humans are all some smaller animal like mice, but the little friendless mouse boy is still all “this gentle giant DOES have feelings, almost like we do, and he deserves to live free!”
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie "Free Willy" syncs up perfectly with Prodigy's "The Fat of the Land".
neutral · AI labelView post →Free Willy (1993) A popular family film about a troubled orphan, Jesse, who forms a deep bond with a captive orca named Willy at a marine park, leading him to orchestrate a plan to free the whale from his cruel owners.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jurassic Park movie inspired by the plot of Free Willy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Throw in Free Willy and Jonah: A Veggietales Movie and we can rebrand ourselves as #HWTW (Historians Watch the Whales) for a month. #InTheHeartOfTheSea #HATM
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite James Bond movie: Free Willy
neutral · AI labelView post →The porn satire of the movie Free Willy is also called Free Willy. Make sure you get the right movie when you're planning to watch it.
neutral · AI labelView post →New release: Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home - Interactive Movie Book (1995 - Win/Win 3.x) - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/free-willy-2-the-adventure-home-interactive-movie-book-zya #abandonware
neutral · AI labelView post →Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid. Free Willy
neutral · AI labelView post →Works done, time for a movie! Tonight's randomly picked movie from #MyFavorite movies of all time series is... Free Willy, 1993
positive · AI labelView post →some appropriate movies - The Lion King - Turning Red - Brother Bear - The Barbie Movie - Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Ninja Assassin - Honey I Shrunk the Kids - Free Willy - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie - An American Tail
neutral · AI labelView post →Gender is a social construct. Free Willy is objectively the best film.
positive · AI labelView post →Add one word to a film to ruin it. Don't Free Willy
neutral · AI labelView post →Improve a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals" Free Willy With Big Naturals
neutral · AI labelView post →Damn. Free Willy is literally up next on me and my kids' movie night schedule. Rest peacefully
neutral · AI labelView post →🟪Purple Quick (38/??) 🐳Free Willy or something. I never watched the movie... #VRChat #VRChatPhotography #vrchatfurry #furry
neutral · AI labelView post →Also I gather that the film title "Free Willy", while nothing much to most Americans, gets quite a laugh in the UK.
neutral · AI labelView post →yeah *slides you a copy of The Novelization of The Movie Free Willy*
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of seeing a preview of Free Willy (forgive the pun—that was the name of the movie!) and when the whale jumps over a jetty or something a guy in the row in front of me says (sincerely) “great stunt work!” I snortlaughed so hard the whole theater heard me.
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