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Mood:
Bleak Rough Suspenseful Exciting Tense
Plot:
Obsessive Quest Rescue Disaster Forces of Nature Danger Escapades
Genres:
Adventure Drama
Time/Period:
20th Century 90s
Place:
Ship Ocean or Sea
Audience:
Boys' Night Teens
Praise:
Award Winner Blockbuster
Attitudes:
Serious Realistic

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The Perfect Storm, 2000

Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg

Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen

Written by: William D. Wittliff

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 130 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:6.2

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The mood of The Perfect Storm is bleak, tense, and rough. The plot centers around forces of nature, disasters, and an obsessive quest. It is a drama and adventure movie. In approach, The Perfect Storm is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, on a ship. It happens in the 1990s. The Perfect Storm is known for being a blockbuster and an award winner. It is especially suggested for teens and a boys' night.

Summary of The Perfect Storm

Based on the engrossing nonfiction work by Sebastian Junger about the Andrea Gail--a commercial swordfishing boat that was lost at sea in October 1991--Wolfgang Petersen's The Perfect Storm brings the pages to life. The movie features a big-name cast (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg) playing the gruff, edgy fishermen in the Gloucester, Massachusetts, port, as well as close-up camera shots of the boats moored on the wintry docks. Viewers are drawn into the closely knit New England community that is struck speechless by a fierce nor'easter made from three merging hurricanes. Meteorologists call it the Perfect Storm.

Despite the weather forecast, skipper Billy Tyne (Clooney) insists that his crew go out on one more 30-day swordfishing trip before the winter sets in. At sea, a series of tragedies ensues, including a man dragged overboard by one of the 300-foot-long lines and a bloodthirsty shark that gets reeled onto the deck accidentally. What's worse, the skipper's right-hand man, Bobby Shatford (Wahlberg), is homesick for his girlfriend back onshore. But it is not until the storm finally hits and the special effects--mountainous dark digitized waves--take hold that the Andrea Gail is rendered helpless even to Coast Guard helicopters and The Perfect Storm's terrifying true-story tragedy becomes reality.

Details

Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	26 June 2000
Runtime:	130 min

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George Clooney

as Billy Tyne

Mark Wahlberg

as Bobby Shatford

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Diane Lane in The Perfect Storm (2000)

John Hawkes and George Clooney in The Perfect Storm (2000)

Mark Wahlberg and George Clooney in The Perfect Storm (2000)

William Fichtner, Allen Payne, Mark Wahlberg and John Hawkes in The Perfect Storm (2000)

William Fichtner in The Perfect Storm (2000)

Mark Wahlberg in The Perfect Storm (2000)

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Philadelphia Inquirer

The problem with The Perfect Storm is that while its roiling collision of weather systems is pulled off with cinematic deftness, the actors who stand there getting lashed and splashed don't have anything terribly interesting to say. Full Review

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by: Steven Rea

San Francisco Chronicle

Does about as good a job of simulating that terror as it possibly could, but it's no competition for what we create in our mind's eye while reading. Full Review

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by: Edward Guthmann

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Not Very Enjoyable

Although well-done, not very enjoyable to watch. Read and rate it

22.March.2009
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by: nirvana
nirvana rated this movie6/10Okay

Made me feel see sick

but that's just me. all in all, it's a watchable sea adventure film, even though it tries to be powerful and ends up being a bit over-the-top. save it for a time when you're in the mood for a disaster movie and you might be pleased. Read and rate it

09.September.2008
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by: Noa
Noa rated this movie6/10Okay

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