Fairly routine adventure, adapted by director Baltasar
Kormakur from Tami Oldham Ashcraft's (Shailene Woodley) memoir about surviving
41 days on a storm-wrecked yacht in the Pacific. A carefree California girl
whose only ambition is to sail the world, in 1983 Tahiti she meets a handsome
British yachtsman (Sam Claflin), and they're soon inseparable and planning
their wedding. A friend (Jeffrey Thomas) who has to fly to America for an
emergency, asks them to sail his yacht to San Diego, a journey of 4,000 miles.
In only a matter of days, they fall prey to the full force of Hurricane
Raymond, which produces deadly 40-foot waves. Throughout the ordeal that
follows, Tami is portrayed as sometimes frustrated, but never paralyzed by
terror, and always highly competent at any task. As a result, there's less in
the way of peril and more in the way of problems to be solved through quick
thinking and action.
Watch out for: Frequent
gore, implied cohabitation, a glimpse of upper female and rear nudity, some
light sexual banter, fleeting rough language.
Rated: A-III, adults; MPAA:
PG-13
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