Product Details

• Actors: Maury Chaykin, Jennifer Dale, Paul Gross, Kenneth Welsh, Cyndy Preston
• Directors: Richard J. Lewis
• Format: Color, NTSC, Full Screen
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Alliance Video
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002VS3QK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #425,388 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-winning novel about the redemption of a faded rock star through love and music. Richard J. Lewis' exploration of the reclusive musician's efforts to create a piece of music that will summon the whales is a sensory and emotional tour de force.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Whale Music - a great film with great music, March 23, 2006

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William Leslie "WL" (Whitby, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whale Music (DVD)

This little Canadian film features a well written script (by Award winning writer Paul Quarrington), great acting by Maury Chaykin and Cyndy Preston, as well as Paul Gross. Other staples of Canadian cinema and TV such as Jennifer Dale (ENG), Jim Bynes (Wiseguy, Highlander) and Kenneth Welsh (Twin Peaks) appear. The music by Rheostatics (one of Canada's best bands) is amazing...the Rheostatics were asked to do the music and even had an earlier album called Whale Music (buy both CDs!). Chakin's Brian Wilson type character is lovable and the scenery of British Columbia is breathaking.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite movie, February 8, 2006

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RK (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whale Music (DVD)

This is my favorite movie. Anyone who has gone thru the pain of losing someone & not being ready to give them up will understand.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chaykin as a leading man? Yes!, January 4, 2009

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E. Kohen (Santa Fe, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whale Music (DVD)

Maury Chaykin is one of those great character actors whose face many people recognize and whose name remains unknown by most. In Whale Music, he doesn't portray--he BECOMES--an obsessed musician, pursuing in an Ahab-ic way the sounds of whales, woven into a symphony the sounds of which only he can imagine. All alone in his mansion-by-the-sea, he lives a life of wealthy solitude, until a young woman walks into his life and opens him to new emotions and experiences. Beautifully written, beautifully photographed, and beautifully acted, this movie can't help but move any viewer.