The CoveSynopsis and Overview

Poster art for "The Cove."

Gifts + Promos

The Vow Free Gift

Buy tickets & receive a FREE 3-Month Love Forecast from Astrology.com!

Fandango Bucks

Send your sweetheart the gift of movies this Valentine’s Day!

Journey Sweeps

Enter for a chance to win a trip for 2 to Nicaragua!

Interactive Oscar Ballot

Who's taking home the Oscar? Cast your vote & challenge your friends on Facebook!

Need Help?
Showtimes + Tickets
  • The Cove
  • Opened July 31, 2009 | Runtime:1 hr. 34 min.
  • PG-13
    disturbing content
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 14+. Read More
  • In the 1960's, Richard O'Barry was the world’s leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the popular television program Flipper. Day in and day out, O'Barry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling. But one day, Read More
  • Cast: Richard O'Barry, Simon Hutchins, Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, Kirk Krack, David Rastovich, Scott Baker, Louie Psihoyos, Greg Mooney
  • Director: Louie Psihoyos
  • Genres: Nature, Animals

The Cove Movie Photos & Trailers + Clips

  • A scene from "The Cove."
  • Director Louie Psihoyos on the set of "The Cove."
  • Richard O'Barry in "The Cove."
  • Louie Psihoyos and Simon Hutchins in "The Cove."
  • A scene from "The Cove."
  • A scene from "The Cove."
View All Photos

The Cove Featured Trailers + Video Clips

Watch All Videos

The Cove Recent Fan Reviews

  • Must Go!

    The Cove

    by satyac

    Do you want to educate your kids about how intelligent and amazing dolphins are, see a fantastic action movie, and learn how you can help stop the biggest dolphin slaughter on the planet (in Taiji, Japan)? Then PLEASE go and see The Cove this weekend. The heroism and dedication of the people who risked their lives to make The Cove is inspirational and humbling.

    The more people see The Cove this weekend (opening weekend), the more likely that it will open across the country, and the more likely we can take collective action to end this horrific dolphin slaughter. So please Twitter, MySpace and Facebook it. IT'S A MUST SEE! Check out [BLOCKED WEBSITE]

  • Must Go!

    THE COVE - POWERFUL!!! Grade: A. (Based on advance press preview)

    by MOVIES REVIEWER

    THE COVE is a riveting illuminating eye-opening documentary regarding the illegal clandestine wholesale slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.

    The subject matter is woefully disturbing, infused with a profound sense of sadness, follows a small determined group of animal rights activists who sought to expose the cove where dolphins are mercilessly killed by the tens of thousands yearly.

    Well-directed/edited - a urgent sense of desperate espionage-feeling permeates the entire movie as the audience was presented with background information on dolphins and how they came to be popular performers in captivity; then onto the reason behind Mr. O'Barry's passionate about-turn/change of heart; the ineffective International Whaling Federation; powerful Japanese lobbying; installations of hidden cams - all with the goal and hope of stopping the annual senseless murder of the adorably intelligent playful and compassionate aquatic mammals.

    VERDICT:
    A powerful Must-See movie!

  • So-so

    The Cove

    by Rich S

    A well done film documenting the capture of migrating dolphins. A town dedicated to procuring the cute dolphins we like to see perform at the world's "dolphinaria", actually kills and eats 80% of the take not "selected". This is done in a secret cove that is penetrated in the film by a group of very determined activists. The group, using sophisticatd insurrection devices, is filmed both as an adventure and as an expose'. The resulting footage is suspensfully shocking. It is hard to sympathize with the Japanese point of view since the perps find it necessary to conceal their operations from the Japanese population itself. Also the percentage of dolphin meat from such butchering is a miniscule proportion of the total fish marketed in Japan. Footage of international gov agencies' endless jawboning is inserted for comic relief. The group led by R. O'Barry, former trainer of "Flipper" now turned anti-captivity for any marine mammal, makes the case for protection of these animals effectively

More The Cove Recent Fan Reviews

The Cove Critic Reviews

Must Go! Avg. Critic Score out of 100 Metascore ® based on all critic ratings.

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Shot rivetingly by cinematographer Brooke Aitken, who combines digital,...

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    There are many documentaries angry about the human destruction of the planetary...

  • 100
    Variety | Justin Chang

    Eco-activist documentaries don't get much more compelling than The Cove, an...

  • 90
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    Like the director's cover story, the movie is a Trojan horse: an exceptionally...

More The Cove Critic Reviews

Facebook Movie Fans

Fan Fandango on Facebook