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The Cove (2009)

Richard O'Barry , Louie Psihoyos , Louie Psihoyos  |  PG-13 |  DVD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (198 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones, Michael Illiff, Joji Morishita
  • Directors: Louie Psihoyos
  • Writers: Mark Monroe
  • Producers: Charles Hambleton, Fisher Stevens, Jim Clark, Olivia Ahnemann, Paula DuPré Pesmen
  • Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Lions Gate
  • DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (198 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002PLMJ74
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,595 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "The Cove" on IMDb

Special Features

Audio commentary with Director Louie Psihoyos and producer Fisher Stevens
The Cove: Mercury Rising: A mini-documentary on the hazards of mercury in fish
Deleted and extended scenes and more

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Maybe you've seen it all, and maybe you're already steeped in outraged, activist documentaries. But you haven't seen anything quite like The Cove, unless you can visualize a disturbing combination of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Free Willy, and the killing of Bambi's mother. The Cove is directed by the experienced National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, who sets about to uncover a shocking (but regular) ritual on the Japanese coast: the herding and slaughter of thousands of bottlenose dolphins in the town of Taiji. A few dolphins are saved during this process, and sold off to aquariums so they can perform in water shows. The rest are crowded together and--away from prying eyes--stabbed to death, their meat sold as food. (Interviewing Japanese people on the street, they apparently have no idea that the "whale meat" on sale in stores is actually mercury-saturated bottlenose dolphin.) It's not that this mass killing is secret, exactly, but the fishermen of Taiji have done a proactive job of keeping cameras and other observers from getting a good look. Psihoyos wants to change all that, and he assembles a swashbuckling squad of scientists, filmmakers, and nerds (including movie F/X people who design fake rocks for hidden video cameras) to extra-legally smuggle recording equipment into the cove. The team's spiritual and emotional captain is Richard O'Barry, the man who helped popularize dolphins as cuddly animals as the trainer of TV's Flipper back in the 1960s--and who, horrified by the way dolphins have been used in public displays, has been an anti-captivity activist for decades. The footage that results is so shocking it should cause seismic reactions in viewers, and when O'Barry attends a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (portrayed by the film as ineffectual and/or bought off by Japanese interests) armed with video of the slaughter, he's like Rocky Balboa climbing into the ring for one more big fight. After what we've seen in the film at that point, it's unlikely many viewers won't be rooting him on. -Robert Horton


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In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan, behind a wall of barbed wire and "Keep Out” signs, lies a shocking secret. It is here, under cover of night, that the fishermen of Taiji engage in an unseen hunt for thousands of dolphins. The nature of the work is so horrifying, a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep it hidden from the world. But when an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers embark on a covert mission to penetrate the cove, they discover that the shocking atrocities they find there are just the tip of the iceberg.

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I want to show everyone this movie that I can. Colton E. Carpenter  |  42 reviewers made a similar statement
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73 of 78 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars a must-see documentary February 4, 2010
Format:DVD
****1/2

Ric O'Barry may be the world's premier lover of dolphins, but the one place you'll never find him at is Sea World taking in a show. That's because he'd much rather expend his time and energy in freeing those marvelous creatures from captivity - an act for which he has been arrested numerous times and which has earned him the status of persona non grata in many quarters. Yet, although O'Barry may be an "environmental whacko" (maybe even a "dangerous criminal") in the eyes of some, to others - and certainly to the dolphins whose freedom and well-being he champions - O'Barry is a real life hero.

The remarkable, consciousness-raising documentary "The Cove" chronicles O'Barry's efforts to make a clandestine video record of a dolphin slaughter that takes place regularly in a secluded cove in Taiji, Japan, far away from public view. Here thousands of dolphins are trapped, some to be captured and sold to dolphinariums, but most to be brutally massacred for food. To get his video, O'Barry enlisted the aid of various friends and colleagues, who formed a kind of "Ocean's Eleven" special ops team of high-tech video and sound engineers, to pull off the scheme.

Why, some might wonder, should animals like dolphins and whales be protected from such ritualized slaughter when other mammals like cows and sheep are not? O'Barry would posit that it is because, alone among all God's creatures, the dolphin has a uniquely symbiotic relationship with mankind, as evidenced by tales told from time immemorial of dolphins rescuing humans stranded at sea and even of protecting them from underwater predators such as sharks.
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76 of 88 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Secret Slaughter: Today's "Silent Spring" February 18, 2010
Format:DVD
About 3/4 of the way through THE COVE, I nearly turned it off. Not because it was a bad film, but because it was almost too painful to keep watching. I grew up, like many my age, watching the hit TV show, Flipper. It was a great adventure going along with Bud, Sandy, their dad and, of course, Flipper the dolphin. I used to pretend to swim with him (Flipper) and thought it would be the coolest thing to be able to feed and play with a dolphin. So it was doubly troubling to see Ric O'Barry (the man who helped capture and train Flipper) as the centerpiece for this film. After watching the original Flipper die in captivity, Ric learned a hard lesson: that creatures with this kind of intelligence should never be kept in captivity, nor should they be harmed.

Fast forward to today, and we find Ric in Taijii, Japan near a small cove where, every September, the unthinkable happens. A mass slaughter of hundreds or even thousands of dolphins turns the water (literally) red. The local government and fisherman don't want anyone to see this event, nor even get too close to the cove. Ric and his friends, who simply try to film here, are harassed, pushed away (physically) or arrested on "pending" charges. So, in order to get the footage they need, Ric and friends hire specialized cameras and camera operators to hide digital recorders around the cove (including an underwater microphone) so that this atrocity can be witnessed.

They go in like a Navy Seal team, with night-vision and under the cover of darkness. It is an act of incredibly risk because it has become all too apparent that the locals will do anything (including act violently) to protect their secret slaughter.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Touching and inspiring... February 10, 2010
Format:DVD
I really think everyone should watch this documentary, not because this is just a great documentary (and it is), or because their cause deserve any more attention than any other animal cruelty or global warming issue, but because it pictures the kind of people the world is most in need nowadays.

These people are different from us, who, in most cases, see what is happening to earth and its wildlife and just think: "i wish i could do something to change all this", or maybe just don't care at all. This is where these people differ from us, they actually got out and did something about it, sometimes even risking themselves.

What is happening in Japan, and other places in the world, where dolphins are being literally slaughtered, is a cruelty, plain and simple. When i see something like this happening i think: "there is no hope for the human race, we're just doomed, we're killing this planet a creature at a time." But when these kind of people try to do something to change all this, the hope that was lying dead inside me just awakens again and I pray that my children and grandchildren (I'm 22 yo) can live in a better world than this.

Even without knowing any of them, I feel proud for the people who did this documentary. And if this post or review helps to gather more and more people to their cause, than this is just a tiny drop of water in an ocean compared to what they did. So buy this movie, donate to their cause, shout at the streets, just trying to do anything is better than doing nothing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "A dolphin's smile is nature's greatest deception."
"A dolphin's smile is nature's greatest deception."

- Ric O'Barry/The Cove

For O'Barry, the struggle began in 1960, when he ventured to train Kathy, the... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Paul Andreas Wunderlich
5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to watch but extremely well made.
A film that everyone should watch! The content is disturbing but the message is clear and it is very informative.
Published 21 days ago by deb goldberg
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting
This film is powerful and necessary in today's day and age. People must be aware of the treatment of our oceans as we become an increasingly global society with implications that... Read more
Published 23 days ago by K. Klecker
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful
I use this documentary in my 9th grade biology class. They no longer want a summer vacation that involves swimming with dolphins...
Published 26 days ago by Maggie
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring!
The cove is an inspiring documentary that is very much so a tear jerker. The harsh reality of the dolphin slaughter is shown in such a way that it grabs the attention of even the... Read more
Published 28 days ago by LibertyLSB
5.0 out of 5 stars Cove Review, By Chyrstin Morrell
This is a must see documentary for everyone. In The Cove we see the biggest secret in Taiji, Japan. They are killing thousands of dolphins each year and nobody knows about it. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Chyrstin T Morrell
4.0 out of 5 stars The Cove Video Review
The motion picture entitled "The Cove" can be called many things; bold, defiant, proactive. However of all these attributes the most prominent is its informative nature. Read more
Published 29 days ago by Christopher Saunders
5.0 out of 5 stars The cove review
I would suggest this doctumentary to anyone. It truely explains about what's happening to the dolphins in Japan. Read more
Published 29 days ago by Natalie Carlat
4.0 out of 5 stars learn the truth about what humans do
a movie everyone should see. heartbreaking as well as inspiring. will make you rethink what you know about how humans treat the ocean.
Published 1 month ago by Hamid
5.0 out of 5 stars Most informative
I don't think I was touched more by a documentary than this one. Never had I seen such an amazing and inspirational documentary. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kenneth Bondurant
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Proceeds of 'The Cove' question
From http://www.savejapandolphins.org/blog.html

The Save Japan Dolphins Campaign and Earth Island Institute do not get any funds from The Cove movie sales. (Those funds go to the OPS, which made the film, and their investors to reimburse them for their considerable costs in making The Cove.)
Mar 8, 2010 by Rose |  See all 4 posts
Why is eating dolphins bad?
In the film, many of the people in the town of Taiji actually have extremely high levels of mercury in there hair samples. This is believed to be caused by the frequent consumption of whale and dolphin meat by the people of the town.

ZombiBoi is correct - the population of dolphin is... Read more
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