Man-made miracles
By Rito P. AsiloTRUTH is stranger than fiction—and Ken Kwapis’ “Big Miracle,” which opens next week, boosts its believability and crowd-drawing appeal by inventively using archival footage to lend credibility to its far-fetched story—set in 1988, at the tail end of the Cold War—about a family of magnificent gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle of Alaska’s northernmost city, with no way of getting into the open ocean.
