Turtle: The Incredible Journey
2009 · 81 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 895 VOTES · DIR. Nick Stringer
Overview
The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey.
Dialogue Timeline — 376 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:54 The stories of the sea are hidden from us.
00:05:50 Every year from the start of spring nearly two million...
00:10:25 All around her the new world of the sea changes and flows...
00:12:50 Now she belongs to the arms of the great current.
00:15:20 Eight kilometres an hour...
00:17:18 The seahorse favours tiny shrimp.
00:20:06 A place that has forgotten sunlight.
00:22:22 Going with the flow.
00:26:24 The oil left by ships willl be here for years.
00:31:00 And now that she knows the rules, there's plenty to eat.
00:32:58 After several months she rejoins the Gulf Stream...
00:36:19 Waves, bigger than whales, bigger than ships.
00:39:10 ...from north to south like invisible wires
00:42:18 Now she fears another silent predator... Winter.
00:44:27 ...from her beach towards the coast of Europe.
00:47:46 ...but she can catch the stragglers.
00:50:48 ...in the open sea.
00:53:58 September slips across the sky.
00:57:30 The lines pull her to the surface.
01:01:19 Meadows of coral.
01:04:20 ...and survived them all.
01:06:46 She leaves the Gulf Stream and turns west into the shallow outlying waters.
01:10:20 She finds a very different land to the one she left behind.
01:13:54 ...of her whole life.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed376
Dialogue density4.6 lines / min
First line00:00:54
Final line01:13:54
Production Record
DirectorNick Stringer
LanguageEnglish
Revenue$69,389
IMDb votes895