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Feb 3, 2023 · True Spirit: Directed by Sarah Spillane. With Alyla Browne, Teagan Croft, Cliff Curtis, Josh Lawson. The story of Australian teenager, Jessica Watson, the youngest person ever to sail solo nonstop around the world.
- (10K)
- Adventure, Biography, Drama
- Sarah Spillane
- 2023-02-03
- Is Jessica Watson A Real person?
- Did She Succeed?
- Did All The Characters in The Movie Exist?
- Did Her Pre-Voyage Trial Run Really End in A Massive Collision?
- Did She Really Leave Her Hairbrush at Home?
- Did She Battle Dyslexia During Her Journey?
- Did She Get Knocked Out During A Storm?
- Did Her Boat Get Stuck For A Week Without Any Wind?
- Did A Massive Storm Temporarily Sink Her Boat?
- Was Her Return to Sydney as Epic as It appeared?
Yes! Watson exists, and she wrote the book about her own experience circumnavigating the globe upon which the movie is based. "There's so many layers of emotion in it for me," Watson tells EW of watching the film for the first time. "It's amazing, and Teagan's performance is extraordinary. It's me, but it's also something else, which I just love." ...
Well, it's complicated and depends on who you ask. Watson sailed an estimated 18,582 nautical miles, crossing through the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, all on her own and without stopping. But ultimately, the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) ruled that Watson was ineligible for the record, having traveled just short of the minimum...
All except for two — and those two were still based on real people. In the film, Avatar: The Way of the Water's Cliff Curtis plays her sailing coach Ben, but Watson reveals he was just a "beautiful representation of a few people who otherwise wouldn't have been able to be portrayed," from the crew who helped her repair her boat to the group of peop...
Unfortunately, yes. Watson forgot to turn on the proximity alarms before taking a quick nap, and a few minutes later, her boat (named Ella's Pink Lady), crashed into a cargo ship. "That collision scene's one of the ones that's really accurate, so that one's pretty intense for me," Watson says. "That was something I still have the occasional nightma...
In a moment of levity in the movie, Jessica realizes she forgot to pack a hairbrush for her long journey and tapes two forks together to detangle her hair for months. That did happen ... but not on her long trip around the world. "That happened on a sea trial," Watson admits. "So not quite the whole voyage. And actually, I got the idea from Jesse M...
Watson is dyslexic in real life, and she loves how the movie accurately portrays the struggles she faced whenever she got stressed and messed up her longitude and latitude coordinates. "So many people can relate to this, and it's not far off from my reality," Watson says, before admitting with a laugh, "I mean, I like to think that I was never that...
In the first big storm she faces at sea, Jessica is hit in the head with a frying pan and gets knocked out. But it turns out that entire scene was made up for the movie. "I feel bad calling out some of the things that weren't quite true, but no, no frying pan," Watson says. "Although there was legitimate danger with stuff flying around inside the b...
In the movie, Jessica hits an emotional low point when there's no breeze for an entire week. She gets frustrated and ends up arguing with Ben over the radio. That was all fictionalized for the film but was based on real emotions Watson felt throughout her trip. "In reality, you never get such long stretches without wind," she says. "Often, it's mor...
Onscreen, Jessica's journey ends with her biggest test yet, as multiple major storms merged into one. The giant waves flip her boat upside down, and she gets stuck 15 ft. underwater for an extended period of time. It's a terrifying scene, and it turns out, the movie version isn't even the full story. "There were seven knockdowns," Watson reveals. "...
Absolutely! When Jessica arrives in Sydney Harbour at the end of her journey, it looks like all of Australia came to celebrate her accomplishment. And as the credits roll, real footage from that moment plays, showing the real Watson reuniting with her family. Incredibly, a young Croft was there in attendance that day. "I was actually there in Sydne...
- Sydney Bucksbaum
- 3 min
Dec 25, 2020 · News of the World: Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson. A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will.
- (96K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Paul Greengrass
- 2020-12-25
Jan 9, 2023 · The incredible true story of Jessica Watson, who, at just 16, attempted to become the youngest person to sail alone around the world, is coming to Netflix — and EW has the exclusive first...
- Sydney Bucksbaum
- 3 min
Aug 15, 2014 · The Giver: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård. In a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
- (126K)
- Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Phillip Noyce
- 2014-08-15
Feb 2, 2023 · The new Netflix movie tells the story of Jessica Watson, who at age 16 became the youngest person to sail around the world solo.
A Perfect World is a 1993 American thriller crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood. It stars Kevin Costner as an escaped convict who takes a young boy (T. J. Lowther) hostage and attempts to escape on the road with the child. Eastwood co-stars as a Texas Ranger in pursuit of the convict.
