Moderately old-fashioned but modishly souped-up, grandiose, operatic, and overscaled account of a real-life disaster at sea ("a disaster of epic proportions," in the forecast of a TV weatherman), the swallowing of the Andrea Gail swordfishing boat out of Gloucester, Mass., during the "Storm of the Century" of 1991. James Horner, the composer behind Titanic, was predictably called into service for the occasion and never given a moment's rest. Before we reach the Winslow-Homer-in-motion, a spectacular though hard-to-follow and seemingly interminable struggle against the elements, we are granted a decent amount of time to become acquainted with the people, the place, the profession, albeit not without some impatient foreshadowing: "Don't go, Bobby. I got a bad feeling." George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, William Fichtner, Diane Lane, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio; directed by Wolfgang Petersen. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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