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Dec 11, 2015 · You could say that Ron Howard's latest feature, adapted from Nathaniel Philbrick's acclaimed nonfiction book "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex," is about the real incident that partly inspired Herman Mellville's novel "Moby-Dick"—the 1820 destruction of a whaling vessel by a murderously angry sperm whale.
Dec 11, 2015 · In the Heart of the Sea: Directed by Ron Howard. With Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson. A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.
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- Action, Adventure, Biography
- Ron Howard
- 2015-12-11
Dec 10, 2015 · The film is based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2000 nonfiction best seller, “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.” Among Mr. Philbrick’s sources are Nickerson’s ...
- Ron Howard
- 1 min
It is based on Nathaniel Philbrick 's 2000 non-fiction book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, about the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820, an event that in part inspired Herman Melville 's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
May 1, 2001 · Weaving together narratives from more than a century ago, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the backstory of Moby Dick, a story that spins out from a real case of a sperm whale attacking an early 19th century whaleship.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a book by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the whaler Essex in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. The book was published by Viking Press on May 8, 2000, and won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction. It was adapted into a film of the same name, which was released in December 2015.
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Dec 11, 2015 · The story here is young Moby Dick author Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) tracks down Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), the only living member of the crew of the ill-fated whaleship Essex.
