White Squall (Blu-ray) PG-13
The strongest will in nature is the will to survive.
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White Squall
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeff Bridges | |
Performer: | Scott Wolf, Balthazar Getty, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Jeremy Sisto, Ryan Phillippe, David Lascher, Eric Michael Cole, Jason Marsden, David Selby, Julio Mechoso, Željko Ivanek & Ethan Embry | |
Directed by | Ridley Scott | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenwriting by | Todd Robinson | |
Composition by | Jeff Rona | |
Produced by | Mimi Polk & Rocky Lang | |
Director of Photography: | Hugh Johnson | |
Executive Production by | Ridley Scott |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Few directors have a better eye for dramatic composition than Scott, and the squall sequence, with a white wall of wind battering the Albatross and its crew, is both terrifying and weirdly exhilarating...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
This film offers just about everything, including a twenty-minute white-knuckle sequence and a chance to shed a few tears. In short, it's first-rate entertainment.
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ReelViews
Rating: 4/5 --
Stunning ocean visuals and a gut-wrenching storm sequence. An underrated and very good coming of age story.
KFOR Channel 4 News
Rating: 7/10 --
An old-fashioned, white-knuckle adventure with the excellent Bridges adding another great characterization to his increasingly impressive resume.
Fantastica Daily
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Despite great scenery, the distinctive visual ideas of Mr. Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and the strong dramatic presence of Mr. Bridges, most of White Squall remains listless and tame.
New York Times
The filmmakers take a rather facile, anachronistic "Oprah"-esque approach toward the boys' feelings about their families and the Skipper's role as a "tough love"-minded surrogate father.
Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
An Excellent Picture. It doesn't get any better
Moviehole
Product Description:
Eclectic director Ridley Scott here tries his hand at a coming-of-age tale, which stars Jeff Bridges as ship captain Christopher Sheldon. Based on a true story, the film is set in 1960 as a group of teenaged prep students signs on to Sheldon's floating summer school, conducted on a two-masted brigantine bound for South America. It soon becomes clear that the gruff but humane captain runs a tight ship as he drills his neophyte crew on the importance of teamwork and discipline. The boys possess a wide range of temperaments--there's the bully, the daredevil, the one plagued by insecurities, the one with demanding parents. Sheldon uses the shipboard chores as tools for dealing with their problems, reining in the obnoxious and encouraging the anxious. Since they are, after all, sailors, they also get a chance to get drunk in port and stop over at a whorehouse. Finally, the crew must confront the fabled white squall, a deadly storm so rare that even Sheldon has never experienced one. Bridges, Ryan Phillippe, Balthazar Getty, and Jeremy Sisto give fine performances in Scott's film of spectacular visual beauty.