Titanic (1997)

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Director:

James Cameron

Writer:

James Cameron

Stars:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

Won 11 Oscars. Another 82 wins & 49 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Leonardo DiCaprio	...	Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet	...	Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane	...	Caledon 'Cal' Hockley
Kathy Bates	...	Molly Brown
Frances Fisher	...	Ruth Dewitt Bukater
Gloria Stuart	...	Old Rose
Bill Paxton	...	Brock Lovett
Bernard Hill	...	Captain Edward James Smith
David Warner	...	Spicer Lovejoy
Victor Garber	...	Thomas Andrews
Jonathan Hyde	...	Bruce Ismay
Suzy Amis	...	Lizzy Calvert
Lewis Abernathy	...	Lewis Bodine
Nicholas Cascone	...	Bobby Buell
Anatoly M. Sagalevitch	...	Anatoly Milkailavich (as Dr. Anatoly M. Sagalevitch)

Storyline

84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

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Plot Keywords:

titanic | ship | love | artist | diamond | 

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Taglines:

Collide With Destiny.

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for disaster related peril and violence, nudity, sensuality and brief language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English French German Swedish Italian Russian

Release Date:

19 December 1997 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Ship of Dreams

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$200,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£4,805,270 (UK) (23 January 1998)

Gross:

$658,672,302 (USA) (8 June 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

194 min

Sound Mix:

DTS 70 mm (70 mm prints) DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

During the 3rd Class party scene, Jack and Rose try to dance the Polka, with neither one really knowing the steps. The Polka is the official state dance of Wisconsin, where Jack is from.

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Goofs

When Rose and Jack (among others) are standing on the ship as it is sinking and they are about the go into the water, the size of the waves compared to the people don't match up. It looks as if the people were pasted there next to normal-sized waves.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Brock Lovett: Thirteen meters; you should see it.
Brock Lovett: [seeing the shipwreck come into view for the first time] OK; take her up and over the bow rail.

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Crazy Credits

There are no opening credits after the title has been shown.

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Connections

Spoofed in Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm (2000)

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Soundtracks

"Jack Dawson's Luck"
(uncredited)
includes "Humours of Caledon", "The Red-Haired Lass", "The Boys On The Hilltop", and "The Bucks Of Oranmore" (Traditional)

User Reviews

A Movie People Love To Hate

As with most things in life, people always force their own opinions to be different so they can feel good about themselves. Titanic is another example. This is a great movie. It's not boring, and the storyline might be cliché but it's still beautiful and really sad, and almost got me crying. The only movie that made me cry was Bambi, when I was 4 years old.

Apparently, people are only allowed to like the second part of this movie, when everyone is dying. And even though that part is in my opinion one of the best moments in the history of movies, the first part is also really good, a gorgeous tale about a romance that couldn't be. It might not add up to the historical facts, but that doesn't matter. If you want to see what really happened, then go watch some documentary about it on the Discovery channel. This is not a historical movie, and the director is allowed to let things happen differently than they really could have happened.

This movie is an 8 at least, and one of the best movies of all time. It's not in the IMDB top 250, which is quite sad. It has great acting, great effects, and is really enjoyable to watch. Unfortunately, people love to comment negatively about something good, because they are unable to think for themselves and have a need to be accepted in their 'clique'. I love this movie, and am not afraid to admit it. 10/10