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Darren Aronofsky held the movie rights to Samuel D. Hunter’s award-winning 2012 play The Whale for a decade before he finally got the elements he wanted.
The wait was definitely worth it: The A24 film has been a success from the first second of the six-minute standing ovation it and the film’s star Brendan Fraser received after its world premiere in September at the Venice Film Festival.
Hunter’s story centers on Charlie, a reclusive 600-pound English instructor who lives marooned on his couch. He seeks redemption in his life by attempting to re-connect with his estranged daughter (Sadie Sink).
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