Whaler Boy, The

[Plays May 13-23 as part of the MSPIFF40 Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff for full schedule.] Philip Yuryev's engaging, melancholy, well-acted, coming-of-age, unpredictable, 93-minute film in which a naive, 15-year-old whale hunter (Vladimir Onokhov), who lives a mundane life with his grandfather (Nikolay Tatato) in a poor, remote village on the Bering Strait, dreams of going to America, and when jealousy rears its ugly head with his best friend (Vladimir Lyubimtsev) involving a racy, blonde webcam model (Kristina Asmus) on the internet, he goes in search of his dream and the woman on his computer screen.
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