

Using this as an example, he encourages Sawyer to "shake it up now and then" and try new things in life.ĭuring the party, Dr. McCarthy shows him an old watch which must be tapped to keep ticking. Meanwhile, Sawyer wins the coveted scholarship to attend SEA Semester so his mother and friends throw him a party, which cheers him up a little bit, but he still can't decide whether to go because he is too upset. Clay catches them and scolds them, but then states that it does not matter, because George Hatton issued a transfer order and Winter is to be transferred to a marine park in Texas since CMA has no companion for her. Hazel and Sawyer break the rule and swim with Winter, who seems improved and is no longer aggressive. Mandy receives a goodbye "ceremony" while she swims out to sea. Clay, Sawyer and Hazel give Mandy three live fish, which she catches and eats effortlessly, so they decide to release her, with Hazel assertively taking charge.

Thus, Hazel understands that what's best for Mandy is just as important as what's best for Winter. Hazel becomes greatly unhappy with her father, and she consults with Sawyer's mother, Lorraine, who explains to her what hospitals are for and encourages her to treat her dad the way she would want to be treated. CMA begins to rehabilitate Mandy, contemplating releasing her soon. Clay prohibits Sawyer from swimming with Winter until further notice.īefore this, CMA rescues a severely sunburned and beached dolphin, named Mandy after a little girl who finds her, which Sawyer, Clay and his daughter, Hazel, hope to be Winter's companion. However, Winter's behavior has become unpredictable, even dangerous: when Sawyer tries to get her out of the tank to prepare to make her a new prosthetic tail, she becomes aggressive and knocks him into the water before Phoebe jumps into the pool and rescues him. George Hatton, A USDA inspector, requires that, for health reasons, Winter must be matched with a new female companion within thirty days or be transferred elsewhere.

Winter needs attention and shows signs of stress and loneliness, especially after the death of her older dolphin friend, Panama. Sawyer wants to go but is concerned about leaving Winter, another CMA dolphin he helped save three years earlier, who has lost her tail. Three years after the first film, a now 14-year-old Sawyer gets a chance at a scholarship to attend an elite SEA Semester program which involves three months at sea to do marine mammal research. After Winter's elderly companion and surrogate mother, Panama, passes away, Winter's future is put in jeopardy, unless Sawyer, Clay, Hazel, and the rest of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium team can find a new companion for her. The film was released on Septem and tells the story of another dolphin at the hospital named " Hope". Dolphin Tale 2 is a 2014 American family drama film written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and sequel to his 2011 film Dolphin Tale. Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, Juliana Harkavy, Austin Stowell, Betsy Landin, and Austin Highsmith all reprise their roles from the first film while Lee Karlinsky, Julia Jordan, Taylor Blackwell, and Bethany Hamilton join the cast.
