Do me a favor, locate your local corporate coffee shop chain and nab five sugar packets. Thanks. I'd like you to go ahead and pour all those sugar packets down your throat simultaneously. Okay, so, how's that feel? Weird right? The combination of guilt because you're a dirty, dirty thief, and sweetness overload from the sugar packets, is about the same the feeling you leave “A Dolphin Tale” with. Carissa Farrow, 11, wanted to see it because she was an extra, and she was curious to know if she could spot herself in the scene where a crowd cheers the star of the film.Roza Gezal, 8, was excited because parts of the movie were made "right by my dad's work," the Sandpearl Resort on Clearwater Beach, where her father is a beach attendant.
And Alex Mazur, 12, stood to get 20 points of extra credit at her charter school if she wrote a review of the movie afterward and proved she had gone by giving her science teacher her ticket stub.
These were some of the motivations expressed by dozens of children — and their parents, grandparents, friends' parents and day-care providers — as they lined up to see "Dolphin Tale" at the AMC Tri-City 8 theater complex on Friday, the day the film opened nationwide.As for those who beat them to the punch, having caught the first matinee at 10:30 a.m., the movie was an unqualified hit."Dolphin Tale" is about a dolphin who loses her tail, then undergoes a series of efforts designed to fit her with a prosthetic one. In the process, she becomes an inspiration to handicapped children and wounded soldiers and helps an aquarium that's struggling financially.It's very heart-warming," said Alexi Stoupas, 9, after seeing the movie. "It's very sad but happy at the same time.""I like Winter because he was funny," said Lauren Yardy, 6. "He splashed the water at the persons."The film has a particular resonance for Tampa Bay residents because it is based on a true story, most of which unfolded at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where the dolphin, named Winter, now lives, and is a major attraction. Part of the fun for local moviegoers was recognizing local spots where the movie was filmed.Friday was a good day to catch the film because school was out in Pinellas County.Barbara Iancu made it a double-whammy — she first took her 6-year-old daughter, Alexandra, to see Winter at the aquarium Friday morning, then she took her to the movie.Dia Zervas has an annual pass to the aquarium, and her daughter, Maria, 6, first saw Winter there when she was a baby.Not everyone was crazy about seeing the movie.Alex Mazur might have been getting extra credit from her seventh-grade science teacher at Pinellas Preparatory Academy, a public charter school, for watching the movie. But it was clear her brother, Robert, 11, would rather have stayed home, said his mother, Milena. "And play video games," piped in younger brother Lucas, 7.And though Emily Ellingham, 10, was happy to watch the movie with her mother, Patricia, her sisters — Lauren, 13, and Ashley, 12, and their friend, Kyra Anderson, 12 — were having none of it. Instead, they saw "Abduction," starring teen heartthrob Taylor Lautner, who was made famous by the vampire franchise, "Twilight."
And Alex Mazur, 12, stood to get 20 points of extra credit at her charter school if she wrote a review of the movie afterward and proved she had gone by giving her science teacher her ticket stub.
These were some of the motivations expressed by dozens of children — and their parents, grandparents, friends' parents and day-care providers — as they lined up to see "Dolphin Tale" at the AMC Tri-City 8 theater complex on Friday, the day the film opened nationwide.As for those who beat them to the punch, having caught the first matinee at 10:30 a.m., the movie was an unqualified hit."Dolphin Tale" is about a dolphin who loses her tail, then undergoes a series of efforts designed to fit her with a prosthetic one. In the process, she becomes an inspiration to handicapped children and wounded soldiers and helps an aquarium that's struggling financially.It's very heart-warming," said Alexi Stoupas, 9, after seeing the movie. "It's very sad but happy at the same time.""I like Winter because he was funny," said Lauren Yardy, 6. "He splashed the water at the persons."The film has a particular resonance for Tampa Bay residents because it is based on a true story, most of which unfolded at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where the dolphin, named Winter, now lives, and is a major attraction. Part of the fun for local moviegoers was recognizing local spots where the movie was filmed.Friday was a good day to catch the film because school was out in Pinellas County.Barbara Iancu made it a double-whammy — she first took her 6-year-old daughter, Alexandra, to see Winter at the aquarium Friday morning, then she took her to the movie.Dia Zervas has an annual pass to the aquarium, and her daughter, Maria, 6, first saw Winter there when she was a baby.Not everyone was crazy about seeing the movie.Alex Mazur might have been getting extra credit from her seventh-grade science teacher at Pinellas Preparatory Academy, a public charter school, for watching the movie. But it was clear her brother, Robert, 11, would rather have stayed home, said his mother, Milena. "And play video games," piped in younger brother Lucas, 7.And though Emily Ellingham, 10, was happy to watch the movie with her mother, Patricia, her sisters — Lauren, 13, and Ashley, 12, and their friend, Kyra Anderson, 12 — were having none of it. Instead, they saw "Abduction," starring teen heartthrob Taylor Lautner, who was made famous by the vampire franchise, "Twilight."
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