“I thought it was great and really sweet,” John Krasinski told assembled press during the “Big Miracle” junket in Los Angeles recently , “but I said to [director] Ken [Kwapis], ‘It’s really good, but we’ve got to cut back some of this stuff because it’s a little unbelievable.’ And he’s like, ‘No, it’s all true.’” Such is the charm of “Big Miracle,” an unbelievable true story about what happened to the world when a family of three grey whales became trapped in the arctic waters just outside Barrow, Alaska in 1988. Based, in part, on the book “Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event” by Thomas Rose, “Miracle” focuses on a budding television reporter (Krasinski) who stumbles onto the story of his life in sleepy barrow. Soon, oil company executives, his ex-girlfriend-cum-Greenpeace activist (played by Drew Barrymore), reporters from around the country and even the office of Ronald Reagan are involved in the rescue effort.
