The Perfect Storm (Blu-ray) PG-13
The storm is coming.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 22, 2008
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | George Clooney & Mark Wahlberg | |
Performer: | Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Hawkes, Cherry Jones, John C. Reilly, Bob Gunton, Karen Allen, Allen Payne, Josh Hopkins, Dash Mihok & Rusty Schwimmer | |
Directed by | Wolfgang Petersen | |
Edited by | Richard Francis-Bruce | |
Screenwriting by | William D. Wittliff | |
Composition by | James Horner | |
Produced by | Wolfgang Petersen, Gail Katz & Paula Weinstein | |
Director of Photography: | John Seale | |
Executive Production by | Duncan Henderson & Barry Levinson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A well-crafted example of a film of pure sensation
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/5 --
We needn't appeal to the fact that this was all a true story to find it horribly dispiriting: it does a perfectly bad job just as a self-contained story in its own right.
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Alternate Ending
The discrepancy between the sophistication of the special effects and the rudimentary dramaturgy results in a $140 million film that may raise your blood pressure, but leaves the rest of you distinctly unengaged.
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Newsweek
Rating: C- --
feels more like a made-for-TV movie
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Old School Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Think of something with the heart and soul of a Conrad yarn, yet buttressed by very special effects and shrewdly packaged for devotees of the Outdoor Living Network
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Globe and Mail
Along with TITANIC, Wolfgang Petersen's hurricane tragedy is a disaster-movie rarity: the true story.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 2/5 --
A sense of reality is essential, and it's sorely lacking.
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
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.
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.
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- Sales Rank: 22,091
- UPC: 012569828476
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