Dead Calm

Based On the book by Charles Williams

Dead Calm is a 1989 American 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. Notably, the movie is the first successful film adaptation of the novel, after Orson Welles worked for a number of years to complete his own film based on it titled The Deep, though it ultimately went unreleased and uncompleted.

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Release date:

April 7, 1989

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Cast:

Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, George Shevtsov

Genre:

Thriller

Country:

United States, Australia

Language:

English

Year page:

1989 in adaptations