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Release Date:
2 February 1996 (USA)
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The strongest force in nature is the will to survive. more
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Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyagee. full summary | add synopsis
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Not one of Ridley Scott's best, but it deserved better
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jeff Bridges | ... | Captain Christopher 'Skipper' Sheldon |
 | Caroline Goodall | ... | Dr. Alice Sheldon |
 | John Savage | ... | McCrea, Albatross Crewman / English Teacher |
 | Scott Wolf | ... | Charles 'Chuck' Gieg / Narrator |
 | Jeremy Sisto | ... | Frank Beaumont |
 | Ryan Phillippe | ... | Gil Martin |
 | David Lascher | ... | Robert March |
 | Eric Michael Cole | ... | Dean Preston |
 | Jason Marsden | ... | Shay Jennings, Albatross First Mate |
 | David Selby | ... | Francis Beaumont |
 | Julio Oscar Mechoso | ... | Girard Pascal, Albatross Cook (as Julio Mechoso) |
| Zeljko Ivanek | ... | Coast Guard Capt. Sanders |
 | Balthazar Getty | ... | Tod Johnstone |
 | Ethan Embry | ... | Tracy Lapchick |
| Jordan Clarke | ... | Charles Gieg |
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Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and a traumatic shipwreck.
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129 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Norway:11 |
Netherlands:12 |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #34325) |
Iceland:12 (video rating) |
Iceland:L (original rating) |
South Korea:15 |
Brazil:Livre |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:12 |
Singapore:PG
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In spring 1961, the real Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon became the first Peace Corps director in Latin America. He never remarried.
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Continuity: In numerous scenes the sky changes from cloudy to blue in different shots.
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Edited into Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
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BE MY GUEST
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With masterpieces like Alien, Blade Runner and the underrated, but superb, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, I am quite a big Ridley Scott fan. White Squall is something of a let down in comparison, but it certainly deserved more than a measly $10 million US gross at the box office. As you would expect from a Scott film it boasts his trademark lavish production quality and stunning photography. The sequences at sea at some of the most spectacular ever filmed as Scott revels in the rolling waves and lurching ship, convey the ferociousness at sea, even in fairly calm conditions like no other film I can recall. The story however is less successful and is essentially (and unusually unoriginal for a Scott movie) a Dead Poets' Society at sea, as a motley crew of young boys, played by a talented and convincing set youngsters, do a lot of growing during the course of the voyage under the watchful eye of an Ahab-esque but eventually sympathetic Jeff Bridges. The final scene most definitely resembles that of Dead Poets' Society. (Captain. My Captain). However the film as a whole never bores and makes for compulsive viewing at times particularly the superb storm of the title, that is both moving as well technical tour de force.