The Whale

Brendan Fraser gives a career-defining performance in director Darren Aronofsky’s arrestingly intimate drama about a reclusive English professor struggling with personal relationships and self-acceptance, adapted from the acclaimed stage play by Samuel D. Hunter. In The Whale, Fraser plays Charlie, a lonely, 600-pound online writing teacher confined to his apartment and struggling to find his place in the world. When he attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter (Sadie Sink, Stranger Things), Charlie discovers his one last shot at redemption. A heartbreaking and often humorous portrait of love, loss, and second chances, The Whale is a profoundly beautiful story of a fractured family trying to find forgiveness in a sea of regret. Also starring two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (Synecdoche, New York), Ty Simpkins (Avengers: Endgame) and Hong Chau (Inherent Vice). An A24 release. (Dir. by Darren Aronofsky, 2022, USA, 117 mins., Rated R)