The Perfect Storm (film)

The Perfect Storm is a 2000 American biographical disaster drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It is an adaptation of the 1997 nonfiction book of the same title by Sebastian Junger, which tells the story of the 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 stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, Karen Allen and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. It was released on June 30, 2000, by Warner Bros. Pictures.

After repeated warnings from other ships, Andrea Gail loses her antenna, forcing Captain Linda Greenlaw Mastrantonio of sister ship Hannah Boden to call in a Mayday. A New York Air National Guard HH60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter responds, but after failing to perform a midair refueling with an HC130 Hercules, the helicopter crew ditch their aircraft, with all but one of the Air National Guard crew members are rescued by a Coast Guard vessel, the USCGC Tamaroa.Andrea Gail endures various problems. With 40foot 12m waves crashing on top of the deck, a broken stabilizer ramming the side of the ship, and two men thrown overboard, the crew decide to turn around to avoid further damage by the storm. After doing so, the vessel encounters an enormous rogue wave. Billy tells Bobby Wahlberg to apply full power to ride over the wave it seems that they may make it over, but the wave starts to break and the boat capsizes. Billy elects to go down with his ship, the rest of the crew are trapped inside and only Bobby manages to get out. He surfaces in time to watch the boat go under however, without a life jacket, he has no chance of surviving. He is last seen all alone among the waves. There are no survivors and the film ends with Linda reading the eulogy at the memorial service, followed by Christina and Bobbys mother, Ethel, consoling each other on the dock and Billys voice soliloquising about what it means to be a swordboat captain. ........

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