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Apr 24, 2024 · Amy Adams will star in At the Sea, the latest drama from Kornél Mundruczó, the Hungarian filmmaker behind acclaimed films Pieces of a Woman and White God. Sea reteams Mundruczó with Kata Wéber ...
- Cast Away. Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy. 297 votes. In this enthralling survival drama, director Robert Zemeckis captures the desperate struggle of Chuck Noland (played by Tom Hanks), a FedEx employee who gets stranded on a remote island after a plane crash.
- Adrift. Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas. 140 votes. Based on a harrowing true story, Adrift follows the lives of young couple Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) as they embark on a sailing adventure across the Pacific Ocean.
- Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane. 240 votes. James Cameron's epic disaster romance Titanic revisits the infamous sinking of the RMS Titanic, blending historical events with the fictional love story of upper-class Rose (Kate Winslet) and working-class Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio).
- The Perfect Storm. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly. 191 votes. Director Wolfgang Petersen brings Sebastian Junger's bestselling novel to life in The Perfect Storm, a thrilling drama about the ill-fated fishing vessel Andrea Gail and its crew during the “storm of the century.”
- Abandon Ship! (1957) Ack. Pity the man — in this case, proto-hunk Tyrone Power — who is left to decide which of the 27 shipwreck survivors stranded on a nine-person lifeboat must be thrown overboard as a massive storm approaches, a storm that would surely swamp the overloaded dinghy if more than a few unfortunate souls aren’t sacrificed by being set adrift in the middle of the Atlantic.
- Lifeboat (1944) To tweak a tagline of a certain long-running MTV reality show, Alfred Hitchcock’s heralded — and harrowing — adaption of a John Steinbeck survival-at-sea yarn is an exploration of what happens when seven-ish strangers trapped on a tiny lifeboat in the middle of the North Atlantic stop being polite ...
- The Deep (2012) While “Life of Pi” (see below) managed to make serious waves at the 85th Academy Awards (best director, score, cinematography and visual effects), this engrossing, existentialist stranded-at-sea drama based on the true story of a blessedly blubbery fisherman named Guðlaugur Friðþórsson captured the hearts of Icelandic critics and filmgoers alike and served as that country’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar.
- The Disappeared (2012) Rough seas, raw skin, rations and lots and lots of rowing. Released in 2012, a big year for lost-at-sea survival films, this Canadian import from director Shandi Mitchell about six men fighting for their lives in the North Atlantic takes a decidedly different approach than its peers, focusing more on storytelling than gimmicks and special effects.
- The Andrea Gail Sets Sail
- The “Perfect Storm” Brews
- The Loss of The Andrea Gail
- Dramatizations of The Andrea Gail‘S Disappearance
Like most fishermen, the six-man crew of the Andrea Gailwould have preferred a quick voyage. They wanted to get their fish, return to port, and go back to their families with a decent amount of money in their pockets. Every day they spent fishing without a catch meant another day out in the cold waters of the Atlantic. The Andrea Gail was a well-eq...
As the men on the Andrea Gailwere cursing their luck, a storm was brewing off the coast. Some extreme weather patterns were coming together to create the ideal conditions for a massive nor’easter. Nor’easters are common in the region, but this was no common storm. Meanwhile, a hurricane was brewing in the Atlantic. Typically, late-season hurricanes...
Gloucester Times reported that the Andrea Gail‘s last communication was with another ship called the Hannah Boden. Linda Greenlaw, the captain of the Hannah Boden, remembered later, “I wanted a weather report, and Billy [Tyne] wanted a fishing report. I recall him saying, ‘The weather sucks. You probably won’t be fishing tomorrow night.” It was the...
The story of the shipwreck was eventually told in a book by Sebastian Junger titled The Perfect Stormin 1997. In 2000, it was adapted into a movie with the same title, starring George Clooney. In the movie, the Andrea Gailwas swamped by a massive wave in the middle of the storm. In truth, no one is sure what happened to the ship or its crew. “I thi...
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- Life of Pi. One of the most critically lauded movies of its year, Life of Pi was nominated for a total of 11 Oscars, winning four. The premise revolves around a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma) who is stranded on a lifeboat with a dangerous Bengal tiger after surviving an ocean liner shipwreck.
- The Poseidon Adventure. The very notion of being lost at sea is terrifying all in itself, but throw in the element of a capsized ship on the verge of being completely consumed by water and the stakes get even more dicey.
- The Shallows. Inspired by her husband Ryan Reynold’s minimalist movie Buried, which takes place entirely in a coffin, Blake Lively teamed up with director Jaume Collet-Serra and writer Anthony Jaswinski for this stranded at sea survival horror.
- Adrift. Like Titanic, this is based on a real-life event, just on a much smaller scale. No less harrowing for the viewer, Adrift stars Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin as a couple who are stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after Hurricane Raymond in 1983, and must find their way to Hawaii with a damaged boat and no radio.
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Sep 30, 2016 · The Reconquest: Directed by Jonás Trueba. With Francesco Carril, Itsaso Arana, Candela Recio, Pablo Hoyos. Manuela and Olmo meet again in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love.
Mar 17, 2021 · Abandoned: Directed by John Laing. With Dominic Purcell, Peter Feeney, Owen Black, Greg Johnson. In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew.
