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[[Free Willy]] is a 1993 family film about [[A Boy and His X|a boy and his orca whale.]] The story is about Jesse (Jason James Richter), a young boy, who is caught vandalizing a theme park. His social worker manages to find a way that he can escape punishment, by helping out at the underwater attraction. Over time he befriends Willy, an orca whale kept in the park after being captured and taken away from his family.
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Also spawned many "[[Double Entendre|Whip it out]] in public" jokes in middle schools across the US.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Just where were the adults supervising those noisy children in the underwater observation area, when they were screaming and banging on the glass, causing Willy to freak out?
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: And it was weird even by the standards of animated adaptations. Let's see, Jesse turns out to be a "[[Speaks Fluent Animal|Truth-Talker]]", there's a [[Lost World]]-style island where recently extinct species thrive in secret, and -err- there is an antagonistic character called The Machine. He is a cyborg who lives in a technological fortress underwater and wants to kill every living thing. No, this was real; you can see him at around the 18 second mark in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFMXKb9OAVE the opening credits]. Because why not replace the "let's keep Willy away from humans who want to mistreat him" conflict from the films with "there's an underwater cyborg who hates everyone"?
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