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** Linda Greenlaw, the only female captain in the American swordfishing fleet and one of the key players in the narrative of both the book and the movie versions of ''The Perfect Storm''[[note]]She's the character Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio portrays[[/note]], wrote a SpiritualSuccessor of a book called ''The Hungry Ocean'', using as its plot a fishing trip that occurred several years after the events in ''The Perfect Storm'', as a way to show what a typical commercial fishing voyage would look like. She has since gone on to a career as a writer, with several more books having alredy been published.
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** Linda Greenlaw, the only female captain in the American swordfishing fleet and one of the key players in the narrative of both the book and the movie versions of ''The Perfect Storm''[[note]]She's the character Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio portrays[[/note]], wrote a SpiritualSuccessor of a book called ''The Hungry Ocean'', using as its plot a fishing trip that occurred several years after the events in ''The Perfect Storm'', as a way to show what a typical commercial fishing voyage would look like. She has since gone on to a career as a writer, with several more books having alredy already been published.
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''The Perfect Storm'' (2000) is a film by Creator/WolfgangPetersen about the "Perfect Storm" that hit North America in October 1991, and speculates on the fate of the crew of the ''Andrea Gail'', a fishing boat based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, that was lost in the tempest. It stars Creator/GeorgeClooney, Creator/MarkWahlberg, William Fichtner, Creator/WilliamFichtner, Creator/JohnCReilly, Allen Payne, Creator/JohnHawkes, Diane Lane, Creator/MichaelIronside, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Creator/CherryJones.
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The film grossed $182,618,434 in the United States and a further $143,138,203 internationally for a total gross of $325,756,637. It holds a 47% approval rating on critic site Rotten Tomatoes.
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''The Perfect Storm'' (2000) is a film by Creator/WolfgangPetersen about the "Perfect Storm" that hit North America in October 1991, and speculates on the fate of the crew of the ''Andrea Gail'', a fishing boat based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, that was lost in the tempest. It stars Creator/GeorgeClooney, MarkWahlberg, Creator/MarkWahlberg, William Fichtner, Creator/JohnCReilly, Allen Payne, JohnHawkes, Creator/JohnHawkes, Diane Lane, MichaelIronside, Creator/MichaelIronside, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Creator/CherryJones.
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''The Perfect Storm'' (2000) is a film by Creator/WolfgangPetersen about the "Perfect Storm" that hit North America in October 1991, and speculates on the fate of the crew of the ''Andrea Gail'', a fishing boat based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, that was lost in the tempest. It stars Creator/GeorgeClooney, MarkWahlberg, William Fichtner, Creator/JohnCReilly, Allen Payne, JohnHawkes, Diane Lane, MichaelIronside, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and CherryJones.
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* FightToSurvive: After they are caught in the perfect storm. A DownerEnding, but not for lack of trying.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first scene of the movie shows the wall listing the fisherman lost at sea throughout the centuries.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/06/sports/boating-report-real-storm-skipper-crew-boat-all-survived.html According to the New York Times]], the portayal of Leonard Ray and the ''Satori's'' voyage (''Mistral'' in the movie) is boarderline charater assassination.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Half the trailers (and most of the posters) showed a huge rogue wave about to eat the boat.
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** Linda Greenlaw, the only female captain in the American swordfishing fleet and one of the key players in the narrative of both the book and the movie versions of ''The Perfect Storm''[[hottip:*:She's the character Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio portrays]], wrote a SpiritualSuccessor of a book called ''The Hungry Ocean'', using as its plot a fishing trip that occurred several years after the events in ''The Perfect Storm'', as a way to show what a typical commercial fishing voyage would look like. She has since gone on to a career as a writer, with several more books having alredy been published.
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** Linda Greenlaw, the only female captain in the American swordfishing fleet and one of the key players in the narrative of both the book and the movie versions of ''The Perfect Storm''[[hottip:*:She's Storm''[[note]]She's the character Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio portrays]], portrays[[/note]], wrote a SpiritualSuccessor of a book called ''The Hungry Ocean'', using as its plot a fishing trip that occurred several years after the events in ''The Perfect Storm'', as a way to show what a typical commercial fishing voyage would look like. She has since gone on to a career as a writer, with several more books having alredy been published.
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** The crew of the Andrea Gail, going straight through a storm they knew was bad to get home with little regard to actually surviving the trip. This is somewhat justified; Tyne was under intense pressure from the owner of the boat to bring in a catch, and at the time they made their decision, they had no idea just how severe the weather was going to get. They also never wore lifejackets on board, until it was too late for them to do any good anyway.
** The helicopter crew, dropping a basket on a line over the heavily-rocking Mistral.
** The crew of the Andrea Gail, going straight through a storm they knew was bad to get home with little regard to actually surviving the trip. This is somewhat justified; Tyne was under intense pressure from the owner of the boat to bring in a catch, and at the time they made their decision, they had no idea just how severe the weather was going to get. They also never wore lifejackets on board, until it was too late for them to do any good anyway.
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** The crew of the Andrea Gail, going straight through a storm they knew was bad to get home with little regard to actually surviving the trip. This is somewhat justified; Tyne was under intense pressure from the owner of the boat to bring in a catch, and at the time they made their decision, they had no idea just how severe the weather was going to get. They also never wore lifejackets on board, until it was too late for them to do any good anyway.
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** The crew of the Andrea Gail, going straight through a storm they knew was bad to get home with little regard to actually surviving the trip. Apparently, they had no lifejackets on board either, which is actually illegal.
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* GetItOverWith: Most of the crew voluntarily sink with the ship, knowing there is no hope of rescue. Only the first mate makes it to the surface -- and the last view of him is surrounded by 70+ foot swells in hurricane force winds.
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* GetItOverWith: Most of the crew voluntarily sink with the ship, knowing there is no hope of rescue. Only the first mate makes it to the surface -- and the last view of him is surrounded by 70+ foot swells in hurricane force winds.winds, saying his good-byes to his loved ones.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When the ship goes down, all but one of the crew quite deliberately goes down with it, because they know there's no hope of rescue and they don't want to prolong the inevitable.
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** The real-life Perfect Storm generated waves recorded at up to ''101 feet'' high. It may never be known if the ''Andrea Gail'' (which was only 72 feet long) ever actually encountered any of these monsters, but if she did it would have been big enough to pitch-pole the boat..
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** The real-life Perfect Storm generated waves recorded at up to ''101 feet'' high. It may never be known if the ''Andrea Gail'' (which was only 72 feet long) ever actually encountered any of these monsters, but if she did it such a wave would have been big enough to pitch-pole and sink the boat..boat.
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''The Perfect Storm'' (2000) is a film by Wolfgang Petersen about the "Perfect Storm" that hit North America in October 1991, and speculates on the fate of the crew of the ''Andrea Gail'', a fishing boat based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, that was lost in the tempest. It stars GeorgeClooney, MarkWahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes, Diane Lane, MichaelIronside, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and, in a supporting role, Mastrantonio, and CherryJones.
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* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:Most Most of the crew voluntarily sink with the ship, knowing there is no hope of rescue. Only the first mate makes it to the surface -- and the last view of him is surrounded by 70+ foot swells in the teeth of the storm.]]
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*** Except [[AllthereInTheManual the original book explicitly notes]] that a breaking wave (s wave which is about to topple) can capsize the ship even when it is just above the ''single'' opposing beam length, meaning that 80-feet breaker could do the job. Of course, the wave in film IS over '''three''' times higher that the ship...
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* TitleDrop: "What if Hurricane Grace runs smack into it? Add to the scenario this baby off Sable Island, scrounging for energy. She'll start feeding off both the Canadian cold front... and Hurricane Grace. You could be a meteorologist all your life... and never see something like this. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be... the perfect storm. "
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* TitleDrop: "What if Hurricane Grace runs smack into it? Add to the scenario this baby off Sable Island, scrounging for energy. She'll start feeding off both the Canadian cold front... and Hurricane Grace. You could be a meteorologist all your life... and never see something like this. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be... the perfect storm. "
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''The Perfect Storm'' (2000) is a film by Wolfgang Petersen about the "Perfect Storm" that hit North America in October 1991, and speculates on the fate of the crew of the ''Andrea Gail'', a fishing boat based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, that was lost in the tempest. It stars GeorgeClooney, MarkWahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes, Diane Lane, MichaelIronside, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and, in a supporting role, CherryJones.
In September 1991, the ''Andrea Gail'' returns to port with a poor catch, leading Capt. Billy Tyne to take the boat out for one final fishing run, heading out past their usual fishing grounds. However, when their ice machine breaks, they must hurry back to shore in order to preserve their catch, but they discover that between them and safe harbor lurks a confluence of two weather fronts and a hurricane, creating the titular Perfect Storm. Caught in the teeth of the storm, the crew is forced to fight for their lives and for their only chance to get home...
Another vessel, the private yacht ''Mistral'', gets caught in Hurricane Grace and a helicopter runs out of fuel looking for the ''Andrea Gail'', which leads to a harrowing rescue by the CoastGuard.
The film grossed $182,618,434 in the United States and a further $143,138,203 internationally for a total gross of $325,756,637. It holds a 47% approval rating on critic site Rotten Tomatoes.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: When the boat goes up the nearly 90 degree wall of water that eventually topples it, they still have no problem standing upright.
* CueTheSun: See HopeSpot
* CoastGuard
* TooDumbToLive:
** The crew of the Andrea Gail, going straight through a storm they knew was bad to get home with little regard to actually surviving the trip. Apparently, they had no lifejackets on board either, which is actually illegal.
** The helicopter crew, dropping a basket on a line over the heavily-rocking Mistral.
* DownerEnding: See TrailersAlwaysSpoil.
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* ForegoneConclusion
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first scene of the movie shows the wall listing the fisherman lost at sea throughout the centuries.
* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:Most of the crew voluntarily sink with the ship, knowing there is no hope of rescue. Only the first mate makes it to the surface -- and the last view of him is surrounded by 70+ foot swells in the teeth of the storm.]]
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: The rogue wave that ultimately capsizes the boat.
** The real-life Perfect Storm generated waves recorded at up to ''101 feet'' high. It may never be known if the ''Andrea Gail'' (which was only 72 feet long) ever actually encountered any of these monsters, but if she did she would've been in serious trouble.
*** 101 feet would not have been fatal if the ''Gail'' were bow- or stern-on to the wave. A "nonnegotiable wave" is two times the opposing beam area (which means the wave that flips the ship at the end of the movie would have had to be ''one hundred forty-four'' feet in height).
*** Except [[AllthereInTheManual the original book explicitly notes]] that a breaking wave (s wave which is about to topple) can capsize the ship even when it is just above the ''single'' opposing beam length, meaning that 80-feet breaker could do the job. Of course, the wave in film IS over '''three''' times higher that the ship...
* HopeSpot: The brief glimpse of the sun they get right before things go downhill.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Nobody survives that fateful boating trip.]]
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: George Clooney, to his credit, doesn't attempt a Massachusetts accent. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, however, does an accent that is guaranteed to make viewers from Massachusetts cringe. Mark Wahlberg, a Massachusetts native, speaks with his natural accent.
* ShownTheirWork: A goodly portion of the original book details the history and mechanics of Gloucester's fishing industry. Since we don't know exactly what happened in the storm, giving the context and inferring the details from that is the next best thing.
** The most likely hypothesis from the book was that the boat was pitch-poled, capsized end over end, and the movie reflects that, with the ''Andrea Gail'' hitting a monstrous rogue wave, pitch-poling, and sinking.
* {{Spinoff}}: The book was originally supposed to be a single chapter in a book about dangerous jobs, but as the book's author, Sebastian Junger, learned more about the context of the disaster, the narrative took on a life of its own and was turned into a full-size book.
** Linda Greenlaw, the only female captain in the American swordfishing fleet and one of the key players in the narrative of both the book and the movie versions of ''The Perfect Storm''[[hottip:*:She's the character Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio portrays]], wrote a SpiritualSuccessor of a book called ''The Hungry Ocean'', using as its plot a fishing trip that occurred several years after the events in ''The Perfect Storm'', as a way to show what a typical commercial fishing voyage would look like. She has since gone on to a career as a writer, with several more books having alredy been published.
* TestosteronePoisoning: The crew engages in nearly every bout of masculinity short of taking a tape measure to the biceps. So much so - and so much of the "reconstructed" story - that several next-of-kin sued over the portrayals (they lost).
* TitleDrop: "What if Hurricane Grace runs smack into it? Add to the scenario this baby off Sable Island, scrounging for energy. She'll start feeding off both the Canadian cold front... and Hurricane Grace. You could be a meteorologist all your life... and never see something like this. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be... the perfect storm. "
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Half the trailers (and most of the posters) showed a huge [[strike:tidal]] rogue wave about to eat the boat.
** Subverted in the case of ''reviewers'', who generally refrained from giving away the ending. One even article openly stated that "for their own reasons, none of the ''Andrea Gail'''s original crew have offered comment" on the film's accuracy.
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''The Perfect Storm'' (2000) is a film by Wolfgang Petersen about the "Perfect Storm" that hit North America in October 1991, and speculates on the fate of the crew of the ''Andrea Gail'', a fishing boat based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, that was lost in the tempest. It stars GeorgeClooney, MarkWahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes, Diane Lane, MichaelIronside, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and, in a supporting role, CherryJones.
In September 1991, the ''Andrea Gail'' returns to port with a poor catch, leading Capt. Billy Tyne to take the boat out for one final fishing run, heading out past their usual fishing grounds. However, when their ice machine breaks, they must hurry back to shore in order to preserve their catch, but they discover that between them and safe harbor lurks a confluence of two weather fronts and a hurricane, creating the titular Perfect Storm. Caught in the teeth of the storm, the crew is forced to fight for their lives and for their only chance to get home...
Another vessel, the private yacht ''Mistral'', gets caught in Hurricane Grace and a helicopter runs out of fuel looking for the ''Andrea Gail'', which leads to a harrowing rescue by the CoastGuard.
The film grossed $182,618,434 in the United States and a further $143,138,203 internationally for a total gross of $325,756,637. It holds a 47% approval rating on critic site Rotten Tomatoes.
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!! ''The Perfect Storm'' contains examples of:
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: When the boat goes up the nearly 90 degree wall of water that eventually topples it, they still have no problem standing upright.
* CueTheSun: See HopeSpot
* CoastGuard
* TooDumbToLive:
** The crew of the Andrea Gail, going straight through a storm they knew was bad to get home with little regard to actually surviving the trip. Apparently, they had no lifejackets on board either, which is actually illegal.
** The helicopter crew, dropping a basket on a line over the heavily-rocking Mistral.
* DownerEnding: See TrailersAlwaysSpoil.
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* ForegoneConclusion
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first scene of the movie shows the wall listing the fisherman lost at sea throughout the centuries.
* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:Most of the crew voluntarily sink with the ship, knowing there is no hope of rescue. Only the first mate makes it to the surface -- and the last view of him is surrounded by 70+ foot swells in the teeth of the storm.]]
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: The rogue wave that ultimately capsizes the boat.
** The real-life Perfect Storm generated waves recorded at up to ''101 feet'' high. It may never be known if the ''Andrea Gail'' (which was only 72 feet long) ever actually encountered any of these monsters, but if she did she would've been in serious trouble.
*** 101 feet would not have been fatal if the ''Gail'' were bow- or stern-on to the wave. A "nonnegotiable wave" is two times the opposing beam area (which means the wave that flips the ship at the end of the movie would have had to be ''one hundred forty-four'' feet in height).
*** Except [[AllthereInTheManual the original book explicitly notes]] that a breaking wave (s wave which is about to topple) can capsize the ship even when it is just above the ''single'' opposing beam length, meaning that 80-feet breaker could do the job. Of course, the wave in film IS over '''three''' times higher that the ship...
* HopeSpot: The brief glimpse of the sun they get right before things go downhill.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Nobody survives that fateful boating trip.]]
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: George Clooney, to his credit, doesn't attempt a Massachusetts accent. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, however, does an accent that is guaranteed to make viewers from Massachusetts cringe. Mark Wahlberg, a Massachusetts native, speaks with his natural accent.
* ShownTheirWork: A goodly portion of the original book details the history and mechanics of Gloucester's fishing industry. Since we don't know exactly what happened in the storm, giving the context and inferring the details from that is the next best thing.
** The most likely hypothesis from the book was that the boat was pitch-poled, capsized end over end, and the movie reflects that, with the ''Andrea Gail'' hitting a monstrous rogue wave, pitch-poling, and sinking.
* {{Spinoff}}: The book was originally supposed to be a single chapter in a book about dangerous jobs, but as the book's author, Sebastian Junger, learned more about the context of the disaster, the narrative took on a life of its own and was turned into a full-size book.
** Linda Greenlaw, the only female captain in the American swordfishing fleet and one of the key players in the narrative of both the book and the movie versions of ''The Perfect Storm''[[hottip:*:She's the character Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio portrays]], wrote a SpiritualSuccessor of a book called ''The Hungry Ocean'', using as its plot a fishing trip that occurred several years after the events in ''The Perfect Storm'', as a way to show what a typical commercial fishing voyage would look like. She has since gone on to a career as a writer, with several more books having alredy been published.
* TestosteronePoisoning: The crew engages in nearly every bout of masculinity short of taking a tape measure to the biceps. So much so - and so much of the "reconstructed" story - that several next-of-kin sued over the portrayals (they lost).
* TitleDrop: "What if Hurricane Grace runs smack into it? Add to the scenario this baby off Sable Island, scrounging for energy. She'll start feeding off both the Canadian cold front... and Hurricane Grace. You could be a meteorologist all your life... and never see something like this. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be... the perfect storm. "
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Half the trailers (and most of the posters) showed a huge [[strike:tidal]] rogue wave about to eat the boat.
** Subverted in the case of ''reviewers'', who generally refrained from giving away the ending. One even article openly stated that "for their own reasons, none of the ''Andrea Gail'''s original crew have offered comment" on the film's accuracy.
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