The perfect storm [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Baltimore Spring Creek Pictures production in association with Radiant Productions, a Wolfgang Petersen film ; produced by Paula Weinstein, Wolfgang Petersen and Gail Katz ; screenplay by Bill Wittliff ; directed by Wolfgang Petersen.
Title from container. Based on the book by Sebastian Junger. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Special features: "HBO first look: creating The perfect storm" documentary; "Witnesses to the storm:" recollections of the 1991 events that inspired the book; "Creating an emotion:" composer James Horner at work; commentary with director Wolfgang Petersen; commentary with author Sebastian Junger; commentary by visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier and visual effects producer Helen Ostenberg Elswit; "Yours forever" photo montage; theatrical tailer. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Allen Payne, Bob Gunton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John C. Reilly.
Summary:
In October 1991, three raging weather fronts, one of them a powerful hurricane, combined in the North Atlantic to form the greatest storm in recorded history. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Billy Tyne is the sword-fishing boat captain of the Gail who is from Gloucester. Tyne is highly competitive, but has been stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him. At first, they catch little, so they sail east, Tyne ignores the storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but when the ice machine fails the men decide to try to head back with the catch that they have waited so long to get. Based on a true story of Sebastian Junger.
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