Dir. Darren Aronofsky
2022 | 117 mins 
Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins

SHOWING TIMES:

• Fri 17 Feb: 8.45pm
• Sat 18 Feb: 3pm
• Sat 18 Feb: 8.30pm
• Sun 19 Feb: 5.15pm
• Mon 20 Feb: 8pm
• Tue 21 Feb: 10.45am
• Tue 21 Feb: 8pm
• Wed 22 Feb: 2pm
• Wed 22 Feb: 8pm
• Thu 23 Feb: 2pm
• Thu 23 Feb: 5.20pm

Brendan Fraser shines in Darren Aronofsky’s glowing film about a man trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter before it’s too late.

A bereft Charlie (Fraser) has become a recluse. With his best friend (Hong Chau) his only contact with the outside world, Charlie is eating himself into an early grave. His health failing, he reaches out to the daughter (Stranger Things’s Sadie Sink) whom he abandoned when he fell in love with a man and left his wife.

Adapted by Samuel D. Hunter’s stage play, its themes are universal: a need for human connection, a sense that time is unforgiving, and the (occasionally awful) power and responsibility of parenting and being someone’s whole world. The Whale is destined to be one of the talking-point films of the year.

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

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