whale rider
- Release Date
- January 30, 2003
- Director
- Niki Caro
- Cast
- Keisha Castle-Hughes , Rawiri Paratene , Vicky Haughton , Cliff Curtis , Grant Roa , Mana Taumaunu
- Runtime
- 101
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Niki Caro , Witi Ihimaera
- Tagline
- In the ways of the ancients she found a hope for the future.
Summary
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
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