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The Perfect Storm is a 2000 American disaster drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on the 1997 creative non-fiction book of the same name by Sebastian Junger. The film was adapted by William D. Wittliff, with an uncredited rewrite by Bo Goldman, and tells the story of Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea with all hands after being caught in the Perfect Storm of 1991. The film…
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Hollywood studio executives see their big budget products almost exclusively as an escapist entertainment, so it is very unlikely that an ambitious project designed as potential summer blockbuster, would be based on true events. It is even less likely that those true events would have occurred in recent past and have rather bleak ending. But Warner Bros. did exactly that by investing 120 million US$ into *The Perfec…More
The Perfect Storm is a disaster movie that shook me to the core the first time I watched it with my wife (who was my girlfriend back then), it is a movie that would stay with me on years to come because of the implications it had as well as the abrasive and brutal way it portrayed mother nature. This is a 2000 biographical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on the book of the same name by Sebastia…More
