Based on true events, Dolphin Tale is the story of Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble), a troubled young boy who builds a healing bond (in every sense of the phrase) with a dolphin he finds stranded on a beach. Although the dolphin is rescued by marine specialists, the damage done by the crab trap he was tangled in before stranding is too severe to save his tail, which has to be amputated. Unable to swim ‘normally,’ the dolphin faces being put down anyway so he doesn’t suffer for the rest of his life unless, that is, Sawyer and the other humans in the movie can come with a plan to save the dolphin. On the surface the story of Dolphin Tale sounds almost too over-the-top cute to be believable. While it does occasionally veer off course and head towards cloying cuteness, the movie is actually that rarest of films, one that everyone in the family can honestly enjoy.
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