The Poseidon Adventure (2005) (TV)

Director:

John Putch

Writers (WGA):

Paul Gallico (novel)
Bryce Zabel (teleplay)

Release Date:

20 November 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Action | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

THE GREATEST DANGER IS ALREADY ON BOARD

Plot:

A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape. |

Plot Keywords:

Escape | Upside Down | Terrorist | Priest | New Year's Eve

Cast

Adam Baldwin	...	Mike Rogo
Rutger Hauer	...	Bishop August Schmidt
Steve Guttenberg	...	Richard Clarke
Bryan Brown	...	Jeffrey Eric Anderson
C. Thomas Howell	...	Doctor Ballard
Peter Weller	...	Captain Paul Gallico
Alex Kingston	...	Suzanne Harrison
Alexa Hamilton	...	Rachel Clarke
Clive Mantle	...	James Martin
Sylvia Syms	...	Belle Rosen
Amber Sainsbury	...	Shelby Clarke
Rory Copus	...	Dylan Clarke
Geoffrey Pierson	...	Admiral Jennings (as Geoff Pierson)
Peter Dobson	...	Agent Percy
Nathalie Boltt	...	Shoshanna (as Nathalie Bollt)

Also Known As:

The New Poseidon Adventure (Australia)

Runtime:

174 min | Australia:156 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:PG | Singapore:PG | USA:Not Rated | Finland:K-11 | Greece:K-13

Filming Locations:

South Africa

Company:

Larry Levinson Productions

Trivia:

Many new characters were added to this remake while only retaining a few of the original characters from the novel and film version. Some characters were simply renamed, others were dropped altogether.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The hole that is blown in the ship could not have turned the whole ship over. It would only have sunk the way Titanic had done, only by the stern instead of the bow.

Quotes:

Suzanne Harrison: How do you celebrate saving nine people when thousands have died?
Admiral Jennings: It's a miracle that anyone made it.
Suzanne Harrison: Hard to see any of this as a miracle. A bloody mess is what it is!
[turns around and leaves]

Movie Connections:

References Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Classically Bad made for TV Movie

This film is only entertaining if you like watching bad movies. It's full of clichés, bad special effects huge plot holes, random acts of death and even a gratuitous hot chick in her underwear.

This adventure is over acted, poorly directed, poorly written, contrived (of course) and predictable. It could have been saved if they had done it using Legos. (cast included) There is no reason this needed to be 3 hours but no doubt NBC wanted to fit as many commercials into this time slot as possible.

If you like crap, then this is the film for you. Why did I watch it? Because I like to study disasters (in film) and this turned out to certainly be a classic.