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Maiden

  • 20182018
  • PGPG
  • 1h 37m
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Maiden (2018)
The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
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The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Alex Holmes
  • Stars
    • Frank Bough(archive footage)
    • John Chittenden
    • Bruno Du Bois
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  • Director
    • Alex Holmes
  • Stars
    • Frank Bough(archive footage)
    • John Chittenden
    • Bruno Du Bois
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    • 32User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 8 wins & 11 nominations total

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    Frank Bough
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    John Chittenden
    • Selfas Self
    Bruno Du Bois
    • Selfas Self
    Pat Edwards
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Tracy Edwards
    • Tracy Edwardsas Tracy Edwards
    Bob Fisher
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    • (archive footage)
    Howard Gibbons
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    Jo Gooding
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    Nancy Harris
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    Angela Heath
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    Marie-Claude Heys
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    Sally Hunter
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    Jeni Mundy
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    Skip Novak
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    Barry Pickthall
    • Selfas Self
    • (as Barry Rickthall)
    Dawn Riley
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    Tanja Visser
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    Mikaela Von Koskull
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      • Alex Holmes
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    • Trivia
      In 2014 Tracy Edwards learned that her boat, "Maiden," was rotting on the rocks in The Seychelles, a small group of islands in the Indian Ocean off East Africa, where it had been abandoned by its owner two years before. She crowdfunded the money to repurchase the wreck in 2016, and took another year to restore it at Southampton, where she and her crew had rebuilt it the first time in 1989. As of 2019, it is on a three-year world tour to raise money and awareness for girls' access to education in poorer nations. Her project is called "The Maiden Factor."
    • Quotes

      Tracy Edwards: We were a real mixed bag of mostly dropouts, misfits and gypsies and nomads. We were all running away from something, but we were family units... I mean surreal family units.

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    7/10
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    Greetings again from the darkness. Thanks to Ron Shelton's BULL DURHAM (1988), a favorite sports phrase emerged: 'announcing one's presence with authority'. Perhaps no better phrase exists to describe Tracy Edwards at the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race. The 24 year old Edwards was the skipper-navigator of the first all-women crew to compete in the race ... a grueling every-three-years event where yachts are sailed around the world in multiple stages/legs.

    Director Alex Holmes takes us back to Ms. Edwards' childhood. We see home movies, interviews with friends, and hear stories to prove she wasn't the easiest child to raise. Maybe too much time is devoted to this section, but it picks up when we get to adult Tracy's story about how she was first attracted to the race and got involved as a cook on one of the vessels. She talks about being treated like a servant by the crew and how that inspired her idea to assemble an all-woman crew and race their own boat.

    The interviews include other skippers (men, of course), the journalists who covered the race (men, of course), and the crew members from the Maiden. We see them today, and have the "then" photos and clips to gain an appreciation of the 30 years that have passed. We hear that "being girls is like being disabled in the sailing world", and one can sense the attitude (even today) of the competitors.

    The race covers 33,000 nautical miles, but Ms. Edwards' historic voyage started long before they set sail. She speaks to the difficulty of fundraising - two years of almost no money, and how Jordan's King Hussein not only inspired her, but also assisted. A second-hand boat at a reduced cost put the crew to work on rehabilitation, and this 'sweat equity' likely made them more determined than ever.

    "The probability of not making it is high." Self-doubt and insecurities bubbled up. Once the race got underway, the women were a team. Terrific archival footage puts us right there with the crew - massive waves, ice on the sails, incredible cold and wind. These obstacles from nature care not if the crew is man or woman. Ms. Edwards' leadership is on full display during the various legs of the race. It's clear by the end that they have gained respect of those who doubted them, and the warm reception proves how strong their fan base was. It's certainly not the first sports movie featuring underdogs. In fact, the Jamaican bobsled team is a comparison that comes to mind as a group of dedicated competitors given little chance to succeed by those 'in the know'. Here's hoping the inevitable Hollywood dramatization never occurs, as no actor could tell it better than those who performed the work and raced the race.
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    • Release date
      • June 28, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Мейден
    • Filming locations
      • Southampton, England, UK
    • Production company
      • New Black Films
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,168,978
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $46,931
      • Jun 30, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,495,241
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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