Sahara

20052005
PG-13PG-13
2h 4min

Sahara (2005)

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Action Adventure Comedy

Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor... Read allMaster explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.

Director
- Breck Eisner
Writers
- Clive Cussler(novel)
- Thomas Dean Donnelly(screenplay)
- Joshua Oppenheimer(screenplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations

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Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn in Sahara (2005)

Breck Eisner in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Penélope Cruz in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Penélope Cruz in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey in Sahara (2005)

Penélope Cruz in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey in Sahara (2005)

Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Rainn Wilson in Sahara (2005)

Director
- Breck Eisner
Writers
- Clive Cussler(novel)
- Thomas Dean Donnelly(screenplay)
- Joshua Oppenheimer(screenplay)
All cast & crew
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Retired US admiral Sandecker's foundation finances various projects worldwide, including high tech marine salvage by brilliant Dirk Pitt's US Navy Seal veterans team including buddy Al Giordino, which dreams of finding the mysteriously missing Confederal gold aboard the ironclad battleship 'of Death'. Pitts bumps into evidence for his theory it crossed the Atlantic up the river Niger, where the admiral has an environmental project. Alas, it's a West African dictatorship where the ruthless president suppresses the desert people, in league with billionaire French energy industrialist Yves Massarde. Saving reckless WHO epidemics researcher Dr. Eva Rojas, he learns the secret abducted tribal slaves-run waste plant's toxic output threatens, through an underground fluvial system, to pollute the ocean and hence cause a global killer epidemic. —KGF Vissers

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Taglines
- Dirk Pitt. Adventure has a new name.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for action violence
Parents guide

Trivia
A full-scale model of the Texas was built for the film. After the 1865 sequence was filmed, it was dismantled and reassembled in Morocco.

Goofs
When Dirk swings from the camels neck, a "hobble" or rope limiting the camels movements is seen pulling out of the sand. It is attached to his right rear leg stretching to a point "off camera" beyond the left side of the frame.

Quotes
Rudi Gunn: [Dirk wants Al to pull a "Panama"] What's a Panama?
Al Giordino: It's a Navy thing.
Rudi Gunn: I didn't know you were in Panama.
Al Giordino: We weren't in Panama, we were in Nicaragua.
Rudi Gunn: So why do you call it a Panama?
Al Giordino: Because we thought we were in Panama!

Crazy credits
A Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt Adventure

Connections
Featured in Late Show with David Letterman: Episode #12.122 (2005)

Soundtracks
Right Place, Wrong Time
Written by Dr. John (Malcolm Rebennack)
Performed by Dr. John
Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group
By Arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing

Top review

7/10

Succeeds in what it tries to do

Bring on Dirk Pitt! Here is a movie that wants to have fun, the cast wants to have fun. The audience ends up having fun. Steve Zahn is hilarious. Matthew McConaughey handles the limited demands of his role quite well. Penelope Cruz brings her ever-present charm and beauty to a role which is notable for being one of the few action-adventure roles written for a female that is not obnoxious in recent memory. You can't take your eyes off William H. Macy whenever he is on screen in ANY movie. He's that good.

It's kind of a Bond meets Indiana Jones film (I swear they used the same canyon from "Raiders of the Lost Ark") The villains are one dimensional, but who cares? We are here to follow the exploits of our heroes. If we have to suspend our disbelief, we do it willingly because we are grinning ear to ear.

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Release date
- April 8, 2005 (United States)
Countries of origin
Official site
- Official site (Russia)
Languages
Also known as
- Sahara: Con tàu tu than
Filming locations
- Morocco
Production companies
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Budget
- $130,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $68,671,925
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,068,372
- Apr 10, 2005
Gross worldwide
- $119,240,351

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Runtime
- 2h 4min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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