Jeff Bridges Film
Fest Movie #1 (Please click the link to read my review of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot)
Synopsis: It’s Dead Poets Society meets The Perfect Storm!
Blurb From the DVD
Jacket: “Hollywood favourite Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) stars in this thrilling high seas adventure!
Bridges leads a crew of seafaring students (including Scott Wolf from TV’s Party of Five) on the voyage of a
lifetime! But just before their return, nature teaches the toughest lesson of
all... turning this journey at sea into a test of the crew’s courage and will
to survive!”
What Did I Learn?:
1) You can only build character on mountaintops, deserts, battlefields, and
across oceans. 2) Shooting a dolphin is not an effective means of making
friends within your peer group.
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Movie If: You know there's nothing funny about running into rough weather at sea.
Really?: I
realize this film is based upon a true story (so, I don’t know how much of it
is fact or fiction), but I had a bit of trouble believing the kid with a severe
case of vertigo could suddenly climb to the very top of the ship in order to
say goodbye to his departing pal.
Rating: White Squall is a well-written, and
finely crafted film that works both as a coming-of-age drama and as an early
1960s period picture, although it is a bit too long, and it drags near the end. White Squall is
highly reminiscent of Dead Poets Society
(that’s meant as praise), and there is a big storm in the third act,
so what do you know – my usually-sarcastic “Synopsis”
section is pretty accurate this time around. 8.5/10 stars.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118158/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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