Number: 296

Storyline:
October, 1988. Adam Carlson, a reporter for a local Anchorage television station, is currently in Barrow doing a series of pieces on the "local cultural color" of northern Alaska. While out on the sea ice filming a less than promising piece, he spots off in the distance what ends up being three California gray whales - a mother, father and son - who are literally imprisoned by ice which has surrounded them in the earlier than usual onset of winter. They are looking worse for wear as they have been ramming the ice surface to maintain a hole in the ice to be able to breathe and thus survive. The professional and cultural assessment he receives is that the whales, in their current situation, cannot survive for more than a few days, with the ice fives miles in distance to the open ocean with a vertical ice shelf that has developed midway. Adam's piece on the whales not only gets played on his station, but is picked up by news services throughout the States, including the national ...

Cast:

Ahmaogak Sweeney Nathan

John Krasinski Adam Carlson

Andrew Daly Don Davis

Drew Barrymore Rachel Kramer

Ted Danson J.W. McGraw

Thom Van Dorp Don Carr

Tim Blake Nelson Pat Lafayette

Stephen Root Governor Haskell

Maury Ginsberg News Producer #1

Kristen Bell Jill Jerard

Medium: Original DVD,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1