by - written on 04/05/12 (Very useful, 66 readings)
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RELEASED: 1989, Cert. 15 RUNNING TIME: Approx. 95 mins DIRECTOR: Phillip Noyce PRODUCERS: Terry Hayes, George Miller & Doug Mitchell SCREENPLAY: Terry Hayes MUSIC: Graeme Revell MAIN CAST:- Nicole Kidman as Rae Ingram Sam Neill as John ... Read the complete review
by - written on 05/04/10 (Very useful, 13 readings)
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I have seen this a few times now and each time I happily sit through it, even though I know what's going to happen. Somehow it still manages to get me everytime though and there's always part of me that thinks it might suddenly change mid way through! Setting a film totally at sea is a risky business, you have to have a tight ... Read the complete review
by - written on 13/03/08 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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Dead Calm is a thriller from director Phillip Noyce, who followed this film with 'Patriot Games', 'Clear And Present Danger' and 'The Bone Collector'. It is a 1989 film with a good cast, and itsx running time is an easy to watch 93 minutes. The director is a specialist of the thriller genre, so you expect a good yarn here. The ... Read the complete review
Dead good (769 words)by - written on 27/10/00, updated on 27/10/00 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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The first time I was watching Dead Calm, I remember that I was completely engrossed by this menacing thriller. Although I was familiar with Sam Neill at the time, mostly from crap performance of Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Dead Calm was the movie that really brought Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane to my attention for the first ... Read the complete review
by - written on 23/10/00, updated on 23/10/00
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Dead Calm is typical of the unrealistic trash that director Phillip Noyce (look at Bone Collector, Patriot Games, Sliver!) usually delivers in that it is completely ludicrous in its ending. Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill go on a boat ride after the death of their child and are stalked by rent-a-psycho Billy Zane. That's basically it, ... Read the complete review
by - written on 02/10/00, updated on 02/10/00 (Very useful, 23 readings)
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Once you get the situation set up, with Sam Neill marooned on a doomed, battered corpse-strewn boat, and Nicole Kidman (in one of her first big roles) trapped on another boat with ranting loony Billy Zane, this is a white-knuckles suspenser, filled with moments of pure Hitchcock. But getting there involves one of the great ... Read the complete review
by - written on 18/07/00, updated on 18/07/00 (Useful, 97 readings)
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Dead Calm was made in 1989,directed by Phillip Noyce and stars Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. Rae (Nicole Kidman) and her husband John (Sam Neill), have gone on a cruise on their yacht (Saracen) to try and come to terms with the death in a car accident of their little boy. They are becalmed on their ... Read the complete review
