The Perfect Storm (2000)


George Clooney          Billy Skip Tyne
Mark Wahlberg           Bobby Shatford
Diane Lane              Christine Cotter
Mary Mastrantonio       Linda Greenlaw
John C. Reilly          Dale Murph Murphy
William Fichtner        David Sully Sullivan
John Hawkes             Michael Bugsy Moran
Allen Payne             Alfred Pierre
Karen Allen             Melissa Brown
Bob Gunton              Alexander McAnally III
Christopher McDonald    Todd Gross
Dash Mihok              Sergeant Jeremy Mitchell
Josh Hopkins            Captain Darryl Ennis
Michael Ironside        Bob Brown
Cherry Jones            Edie Bailey
Rusty Schwimmer         Irene Big Red Johnson
Janet Wright            Ethel 'Ma' Shatford
Todd Kimsey             Lieutenant Rob Pettit
Chris Palermo           Flight Engineer Borgers
Wiley Pickett           Sergeant Millard Jones
Hayden Tank             Dale Murphy Jr

Directed by:            Wolfgang Petersen
Produced by:            Barry Levinson, Duncan Henderson, Paula Weinstein


An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in 
mortal danger.

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On Halloween 1991, 200 miles off the Gloucester, Massachusetts shore, a collison of monstrous 
storms leaves the swordfishing boat, the Andrea Gail, stranded in the high seas, defenseless in 
what meteorologists have called "the storm of the century." At the helm is the dedicated but 
grizzled captain Billy Tyne who takes his crew out for one last run for the season in the hopes 
of making a lucrative catch. But the trip is a gamble, as for the best fishing the crew must head 
to the dreaded Flemish Cape -- an area of ocean noted as much for its bad weather as it is for 
its good fish.

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In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North 
Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing 
and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear 
and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure.

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Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a 
string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, 
even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in 
love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally 
met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, 
with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. 
Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? 
Fearful, the women wait.