<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $31 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $30 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home is a 1995 American family film, directed by Dwight Little, and released by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment banner . It is a sequel to the 1993 film Free Willy, also starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg . Free Willy 3: The Rescue, was subsequently released in 1997, making a trilogy . A fourth nonconsecutive film, Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove was released on DVD in Spring 2010 . Keiko the Orca does not actually appear in this film unlike the original movie . Willy is played by a robotic double while the Free Willy Keiko Foundation devised a plan to bring him to the Oregon Coast Aquarium where he would be rehabilitated for poor health . </P> <P> It's been two years since Jesse saved and freed his orca friend, Willy . Jesse, now a teenager, has since been adopted by his foster parents, Glen and Annie Greenwood . Jesse and his adoptive parents are preparing to go on a family camping trip to the Pacific Northwest . Glen has been trying to teach Jesse to drive their motorboat, but Jesse is more interested in girls . Before they leave town, however, Dwight, Jesse's former social worker, shows up to inform them that they have found Jesse's biological mother, who abandoned him 8 years ago . Jesse's mother has died and left behind another son, Jesse's 8 - year old half - brother named Elvis (Francis Capra). Elvis is morose, overly talkative, and mischievous, and he is also prone to telling lies and easily gets on Jesse's nerves . He is invited on their trip to San Juan Island so that he and Jesse might get to know each other . </P>

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