Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
The film's promotional one-sheet poster.
Directed by	Dwight H. Little
Produced by	Jennie Lew Tugend Lauren Shuler Donner
Written by	Karen Janszen Corey Blechman John Mattson
Starring	Jason James Richter Francis Capra Keiko
Music by	Basil Poledouris
Cinematography	László Kovács
Editing by	Robert Brown Dallas Puett
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	July 19, 1995
Running time	95 min
Language	English
Preceded by	Free Willy
Followed by	Free Willy 3: The Rescue
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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home is a 1995 film about a boy and his friendship with a killer whale, and sequel to the 1993 film Free Willy starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg. A third film followed called Free Willy 3: The Rescue.All were marketed as family films.

1 Plot
2 Music
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot

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Jesse, the boy who freed Willy the orca two years ago, has been adopted by his foster parents. They have come to the San Juan Island Environmental Institute from which they will embark toward Willy's new habitat. Before they leave town, however, Jesse's counselor informs him that his birth mother, who abandoned him eight years before, has died in New York City. To add to his dismay, Jesse has to contend with the sudden presence of his overly talkative and mischievous younger half-brother, Elvis, who is a virtual stranger to him. Elvis is prone to telling lies and easily gets on Jesse's nerves; He is invited on their long camping trip so that he and Jesse might get to know one another.

On this trip, Jesse reunites with his old Native American friend Randolph, a shaman, and quickly becomes smitten by Randolph's goddaughter, Nadine. As the youngsters grow closer, Jesse helps Nadine befriend Willy and his whale siblings, Luna and Little Spot.

As they continue to enjoy their camping trip, an oil tanker runs aground and spills oil into the ocean, trapping the three young whales in a small cove. When word gets out that the whales are trapped and Luna is dying from the oil in her lungs, the president of the oil company arrives with a great plan to move the whales into captivity where they can recover from their injuries. His real plan, however, is to sell the whales to marine mammal parks and have them perform in shows.

Jesse, Nadine and Elvis get the whales away from the cove by stealing the boat belonging to Glen, Jesse's adopted father, and leading them out of the cove to safety, but aren't able to save themselves when the tanker explodes and the oil in the water catches fire. Their boat hit a rock and started to sink while Glen, Annie (Jesse's adopted mother) and Randolph set out to find them in Randolph's boat while calling for help. Nadine and Elvis are lifted into a rescue helicopter summoned by Randolph's distress signals, but young Jesse is unable to hold on and falls back into the water. There is too much smoke in the air and the helicopter is forced to leave. Right as he is about to get engulfed by the flames, Willy arrives and takes Jesse under the flames to the other side. There they come upon Randolph's boat and Glen, Annie and Randolph pull Jesse safely aboard.

In the end, Willy, Luna and Little Spot are reunited with their mother and Jesse learns to accept Elvis, despite his annoying ways. Elvis also starts being more honest and reveals to Jesse that even though his mother abandoned him, she always loved him and regretted that she couldn't care for him. Jesse is then able to let go of the past and move on with his friends and his new family.