Dead Calm (film)
Dead Calm is a 1989 Australian psychological thriller film starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. It was based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Williams. The film was directed by Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce and filmed around the Great Barrier Reef. Cinematography by Dean Semler and score composed by Graeme Revell.
Rae Ingram Kidman, is involved in a car crash which results in the death of her son. Her older husband, an Australian Royal Navy officer John Ingram Neill suggests that they help deal with their grief by heading out for a vacation alone on their yacht. In the middle of the Pacific, they encounter a drifting boat that seems to be taking on water. A man, Hughie Warriner Zane, rows over to the Ingrams boat for help. He claims that his boat is sinking and that his companions have all died of food poisoning.Suspicious of Hughies story, John rows over to the other ship, leaving Rae alone with Hughie. Inside, John discovers the mangled corpses of the other passengers and video footage indicating that Hughie may have murdered them in a feat of extraordinary violence. John rushes back to his own boat, but hes too late as Hughie awakes, knocks out Rae and sails their yacht away, leaving John behind. ........
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