Flipper | |
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Directed by | Alan Shapiro |
Screenplay by | Alan Shapiro |
Story by | Ricou Browning Jack Cowden |
Produced by | James McNamara Perry Katz |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Bill Butler |
Edited by | Peck Prior |
Music by | Joel McNeely |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $25 million[1] |
Box office | $35.5 million[2] |
Flipper is a 1996 American adventure film and a remake of the 1963 film of the same name (which in turn began a TV series that ran from 1964 to 1967). Written and directed by Alan Shapiro, the film stars Elijah Wood as a boy who has to spend the summer with his uncle (Paul Hogan), who lives on the Florida Gold Coast. Although he expects to have a boring summer, he encounters a dolphin whom he names Flipper and with whom he forms a friendship.
The film is unrelated to the 1995–2000 TV series of the same name that was itself also a remake of the 1963 film and 1964 TV series. Instead of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a production company for the Flipper franchise, this film is distributed by Universal Pictures.