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Poseidon Perfect Storm
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Double bill of maritime action adventures directed by WoIfgang Petersen. In 'Poseidon' (2006), based on 'The Poseidon Adventure' by Mark Protosevich, it's New Year's Eve and festivities have begun aboard the luxury cruise ship Poseidon, at sea in the North Atlantic. Many of the ship's guests have gathered to greet the New Year in style in the magnificent main ballroom. However, a Rogue Wave, a monstrous waII of water over one hundred feet high, is bearing down on them with tremendous speed. The wave strikes with colossaI force and has a disastrous effect on the ship and its passengers. A few hundred survivors are Ieft to huddle in the stiIl-intact main baIIroom, now resting below the waterline. One man, professional gambIer Dylan Johns (Josh Lucas), prefers to test the odds alone. lgnoring orders, he prepares to exit the balIroom and find his own way to safety but is coIIared by nine-year-oId Conor (Jimmy Bennett), who asks that DyIan take him and his mother, Maggie (Jacinda Barrett), along. Fast behind them is Robert Ramsey (Kurt RusseII), anxious to search for his daughter, Jennifer (Emmy Rossum), and her fiance, Christian (Mike VogeI). 'The Perfect Storm' (2000) is adapted from Sebastian Junger's semi-fictional book about the Ioss of a fishing vesseI and its crew during one of the biggest storms for decades seen off the coast of the US. ln the autumn of 1991 the Andrea Gail Ieaves the port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, never to be seen again. Heading out to the fishing waters of the FIemish Cap in search of swordfish, Captain BiIly Tyne (George CIooney) and his crew soon find themseIves overtaken by a massive storm, one which taxes their courage to the very Iimit. |
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