Big Miracle - 2012

An upcoming romantic-drama film based on the 1989 book "Freeing the Whales" by Tom Rose, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

The tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped in a hole in the ice of the Arctic Circle. Local newsman Adam Carlson can’t wait to escape the northern tip of Alaska for a bigger market. But just when the story of his career breaks, the world comes chasing it, too. With an oil tycoon, heads of state and hungry journalists descending upon the frigid outpost, the one who worries Adam the most is Rachel Kramer. Not only is she an outspoken environmentalist, she’s also his ex-girlfriend. With time running out, Rachel and Adam must rally an unlikely coalition of Inuit natives, oil companies and Russian and American military to set aside their differences and free the whales.

The film is directed by Ken Kwapis starring John Krasinski as Adam Carlson, Drew Barrymore as Rachel Kramer and Kristen Bell as Jill Gerard a News Reporter. Scheduled to be released on February 3, 2012 by Universal Pictures.