Dead Calm (1989)
Director:
Phillip Noyce
Tagline:
« A couple alone at sea. When a stranger called for help, they made a fatal mistake… they answered. »
Actors:
Rae Ingram
John Ingram
Hughie Warriner
Russell Bellows
Danny
Rating:
(48’705 votes)
(48’705 votes)
Quotes:
[assuming it's her husband that is washing her hair]
« Rae Ingram: You know what I'd love for lunch? Fresh asparagus, then, um, pasta – angel hair pasta with heaps of basil, garlic, olive oil and, um, apple pie. Yeah. Uh, John, have you got a towel?
»
« Hughie Warriner: Don't you believe me?
»
« Hughie Warriner: How do I smell?
»
[no answer]
« Hughie Warriner: Thanks for your honest opinion.
»
Trailer:
Dead Calm
Runtime:96 minutes
Plots:
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
John Ingram and his wife Rae, who’s recovering from an auto accident, are on their sailboat, becalmed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Their leisurely isolation is interrupted by Hughie, the lone survivor of a sinking black schooner they spot one morning. Hughie’s story doesn’t quite gibe, so John boards the schooner to investigate, where he discovers the real truth. When Hughie wakes and realizes where John is, he takes control of the Ingram yacht from Rae, and motors off towards the horizon. Can Rae regain control of the boat and find John before the schooner sinks?
