Wolfgang Petersen · 2000 · sea

Wolfgang Petersen's 2000 film, from Sebastian Junger's account of a true event. The swordfishing boat Andrea Gail sails from Gloucester, Massachusetts, far out to the Grand Banks and the Flemish Cap in search of a last big catch. On the way home the crew is caught between three weather systems merging into a monstrous 'perfect storm,' battling forty-foot seas in a fight for survival against the North Atlantic.

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   Gloucester

   The Massachusetts fishing port from which Captain Billy Tyne and the crew of the Andrea Gail set out, chasing a swordfish catch big enough to turn around a bad season.

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   The Grand Banks

   The rich fishing grounds off Newfoundland where the boat fills its hold, then pushes further east to the Flemish Cap when the fish stop biting - too far out when the weather turns.

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   The perfect storm

   The stretch of open Atlantic where three storm systems collide into a monster, and the Andrea Gail, running for home, is swallowed by seas no boat could survive.