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6.6An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Released: 1989-04-0796 minDir: Phillip NoyceThriller, HorrorBudget: $10.4MBox office: $7.8M
Cast
- Nicole Kidman as Rae Ingram
- Sam Neill as John Ingram
- Billy Zane as Hughie Warriner
- George Shevtsov as Doctor
- Rod Mullinar as Russell Bellows
- Joshua Tilden as Danny
Themes
- australia
- sense of guilt
- toxication
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Dead Calm is a 1989 Australian psychological thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, produced by George Miller, and starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. The screenplay by Terry Hayes was based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Williams.
Filmed around the Great Barrier Reef, the plot focuses on a married couple, who, after tragically losing their son, are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
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1980s psychological thriller films1989 English-language films1989 films1989 in Australian cinema1989 thriller filmsAustralian thriller filmsCinemaScope filmsEnglish-language thriller filmsFilms about survivors of seafaring accidents or incidentsFilms based on American thriller novelsFilms based on works by Charles Williams (American author)