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In the winter of 1820,the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will,and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. “In the Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath,as the ship’s surviving ...
- 121 min
Dec 28, 2015 · Ron Howard’s nautical tale boasts fine acting, but the visuals and the vengeful white whale are unconvincing. Mark Kermode, Observer film critic. Sun 27 Dec 2015 04.00 EST. Last modified on Wed ...
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- Mark Kermode
In the Heart of the Sea. An inspiration for 'Moby-Dick,' this epic drama tells the story of the sinking of an American whaling ship by a massive white whale. 7,443 2 h 1 min 2015. X-Ray PG-13. Action · Historical · Adventure · Drama.
My uncle, the late Charles Philbrick, winner of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize in 1958, wrote a five-hundred-line poem about the Essex, “A Travail Past,” published posthumously in 1976. It powerfully evoked what he called “a past we forget that we need to know.”.
May 1, 2001 · In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award for nonfiction; Revenge of the Whale won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Sea of Glory won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize and the Albion-Monroe Award from the National Maritime Historical Society.
