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I love this movie. Sam Neil and
play a married couple who’ve gone through the trauma of losing their child in an accident and are dealing with it by going on a vacation on their Ocean on the Pacific. Mid-travel, they find an abandoned boat with one survivor who rows himself to their Yach for help, but when the husband decides to go to the stranger’s sinking schooner to see what is in there, he’s confronted with a horrifying, shocking truth, which causes the separation of the couple and puts their lives in danger.
“Dead Calm” was a disturbing, tense and suspenseful film. Both leads experience a different kind of danger, the husband is trapped on a sinking boat that is quickly submering, leaving him into MacGyver move, whereas the wife is trapped in the Yacht with a psycho and she’s forced to do everything she can to stay alive. As the movie progresses, the film becomes more about the wife and Kidman manages to dominate the movie as her character, Rae, finds her inner strength, while
‘s Hughie, exudes danger and menace but at the same time, sex-appeal. You can see that he’s a time bomb, seemingly nice and hot but whose temper becomes increasingly psychotic as he reaches his unhinged limit (which isn’t hard to do so).
I must say I had no idea Kidman was 20/21 in this movie. She looks pretty mature for her role and she is very headstrong halfway through it. You could tell she was about to be big.