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Dead Calm (1989)

R 04/07/1989 (US) Thriller, Horror 1h 36m

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High seas. Deep terror. Try to stay calm.

Overview

An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.

Phillip Noyce

Director
Charles Williams

Novel
Terry Hayes

Writer

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Nicole Kidman

Rae Ingram
Sam Neill

John Ingram
Billy Zane

Hughie Warriner
George Shevtsov

Doctor
Rod Mullinar

Russell Bellows
Joshua Tilden

Danny
Michael Long

Specialist Doctor
Lisa Collins

'Orpheus' Cruise Girl
Paula Hudson-Brinkley

'Orpheus' Cruise Girl
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A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on March 24, 2014

Stay calm and you may yet not end up dead.

Dead Calm is directed by Phillip Noyce and adapted to screenplay by Terry Hayes from the novel of the same name written by Charles Williams. It stars Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. Music is by Graeme Revell and cinematography by Dean Semler.

After losing their young son in a car accident, John (Neill) and Rae Ingram (Kidman) head out alone on their yacht for an ocean vacation. Whilst taking in some R&R, the couple spy a ship drifting in the distance, then a man in a dinghy hurriedly rows towards them. He boards their yacht, frantic and... read the rest.

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