Customer Reviews

Whale Music

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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.

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

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.

I think Maury Chaykin is a great actor and he was great in this. Not sure why I was disappointed but I was - well, I confess I was expecting to see more out of Paul Gross, who plays the dead brother (what was I thinking??) Oh, well, got a good price (check further down on the list, there's a cheaper DVD made for the States' DVD players). I also thought the music was corny. Sorry.