The Perfect Storm (2000)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Wolfgang Petersen

Writers (WGA):

Sebastian Junger (book)
William D. Wittliff (screenplay)

Release Date:

30 June 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Action | Thriller

Tagline:

In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history.

Plot:

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.

Plot Keywords:

Storm | Fishing | Ice | Sea | Fishing Boat

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 19 nominations

Cast

George Clooney	...	Captain Billy Tyne
Mark Wahlberg	...	Bobby Shatford
Diane Lane	...	Christina Cotter
John C. Reilly	...	Dale 'Murph' Murphy
William Fichtner	...	David 'Sully' Sullivan
John Hawkes	...	Mike 'Bugsy' Moran
Allen Payne	...	Alfred Pierre
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio	...	Linda Greenlaw
Karen Allen	...	Melissa Brown
Cherry Jones	...	Edie Bailey
Bob Gunton	...	Alexander McAnally III
Christopher McDonald	...	Todd Gross
Michael Ironside	...	Bob Brown
Rusty Schwimmer	...	Irene 'Big Red' Johnson
Janet Wright	...	Ethel Shatford

Also Known As:

Una tormenta perfecta (Argentina) (Peru) (Venezuela) [es]
Идеальный шторм (Russia) [ru]
Den perfekta stormen (Sweden) [sv]
Der Sturm (Germany) [de]
En pleine tempête (France) [fr]
Furtuna perfecta (Romania) [ro]
Gniew oceanu (Poland) [pl]
Kataigida (Greece) [el]
Kusursuz firtina (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
La tempête (Canada: French title) [fr]
La tempesta perfetta (Italy) [it]
La tormenta perfecta (Spain) [es]
Mar em Fúria (Brazil) [pt]
Meren raivo (Finland) [fi]
Perfect Storm (Japan: English title) [en]
Tempestade (Portugal) [pt]
Tormenta perfecta (Mexico) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language and scenes of peril.

Runtime:

130 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX | SDDS (8 channels) | DTS

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Malaysia:U | Brazil:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIB | Mexico:B | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37526) | Philippines:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Dana Point, California, USA

Company:

Baltimore Spring Creek Productions

Trivia:

The storm in the movie was formed by the remnants of Hurricane Grace in late October and early November 1991.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the later storm sequences in the pilot house of the Andrea Gail (after the windows are broken out), notice that water droplets falling from overhead continue to fall vertically with the pull of gravity, thus revealing that the camera was tilted and the actors were leaning to heighten the appearance of rough seas.

Quotes:

Linda Greenlaw: [warning Billy over the radio] Billy? Get outta there! Come about! Let it- let it carry you out of there! What the hell are you doing? Billy! For Christ sake! You're steaming into a bomb! Turn around for Christ sake! Billy, can ya hear me? You're headed right for the middle of the monster! Billy?...
[starts crying]
Linda Greenlaw: ... Oh, my God!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)

Soundtrack:

Man in the Box

true tragedy - utterly non-pop-culture piece of art

However politically incorrect it may sound this movie being an American by produce is very much non-American and vividly reminds of Das Boot by the same Wolfgang Petersen. First there is not a single dull and plastic face so mandatory and so prevailing in contemporary Am. bestselling films and so-called blockbusters. Then there is no happy-end as well as no concentration on agony and spectacular scenes of painful death - the author respects death and suffering enough to stop at the very moment when it's plain a man is dyeing and plain how. That's what's called humanism - nothing beyond the line - and what's called true poetry. In some sense this movie is a play to overturn all the Hollywood cliches - in all but all it's aspects and plot-lines. You'll find here all the merits of W.P. excellent cine-art: a exciting and very artistic gallery of faces (and human types farther), an overwhelming and enchanting presence of the Nature - namely sea, very moving and cutting music... And the very story - so simple and so primal (not surprisingly makes one recollect Hemingway and Steinbeck). In short: excellent piece of true art. Magic