gwnightscream
Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane star in this 1989 thriller based on the novel. This tells about John (Neill) and Rae Ingram (Kidman), an Australian couple who decide to go sailing after their son dies in a car accident. Soon, they rescue a mysterious stranger, Hughie Warriner (Zane) who is the lone survivor of a nearby ship that's on the brink of sinking. John decides to check Hughie's ship and discovers that Hughie is a photographer who murdered the crew. Rae becomes trapped with Hughie and John desperately tries to rescue her. This isn't a bad thriller with tense and dramatic moments featuring a good cast. I recommend this.
coop-58984
Dumbest premise for a movie ever. An intelligent Naval officer leaves his wife and boat with a stranger on board to get in to a dingy and row over to another boat when he could have just driven his boat over just like his wife started to do. Really? Does any one but me see how implausible this seems? lmao
matttaylor-65065
This film is a really good suspense drama, from start to finish its edge of your seat drama. The plot is really very realistic and it will make you think all the way through. It could happen to me! Absolutely nothing about this could be considered made up or even far fetched, every scene just perfectly directed and acted out wonderfully I can't say enough about how realistic it is. Along side the excellent acting the sound track is just as intense. There are a couple of minor issues which is what reduces the rating of the film down from a 10 to a 7 but there is enough drama, action to make it a film well worth watching. Make sure you strap yourself to the sofa before you sit down and start watching it!
Wuchak
Released in 1989, "Dead Calm" is the story of a grieving Australian couple vacationing 1200 miles from land on their yacht in the South Pacific (Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman). Horror ensues after they rescue a stranger from a small dinghy (Billy Zane) and the built-in protections of civilization are nowhere to be found."Dead Calm" is one of the greatest horror/thrillers ever made. The "monster" is human – a psycho nut job -- which isn't anything new, of course. It's the confined location of the open sea and the cut-off-from-the-world atmosphere that make "Dead Calm" great, along with all-around excellent filmmaking, including the breathtaking cinematography and magnificent score by Graeme Revell.Neill shows that he has the gravitas to carry a film as the male protagonist, which is why he was snagged for 1993's "Jurassic Park." Kidman similarly shines as the female protagonist in her first major motion picture. Incidentally, Neill was 41 and Kidman 21 at the time of filming. Likewise, Zane de-shines as the antagonist and shows why he was picked for the villain of 1997's "Titanic." There's not much dialogue because this is a visually/musically based film and not dialogue-driven. As such, the acting HAS to be absolutely convincing, and so it is.The film runs 96 minutes and was shot off the east coast of Australia (Gold Coast, Great Barrier Reef, etc.).GRADE: A
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