Free Willy came out in 1993 ... "We took the hardest candidate from near death in Mexico to swimming with wild whales in Norway. Keiko had five years with the sights and sounds of natural seawater.

Keiko, the star of the movie "Free Willy," had been rescued from a tiny ... until he was finally allowed out of his pen without a tether, to swim freely in the ocean for the first time since ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A rare scene in the Philippine waters gave us a sudden rush of a “Free Willy” feels ... so often that we get to see orcas swimming in our waters.