Dir. Ron Howard · Starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley · Music Roque Baños
“Based on the incredible true story that inspired Moby Dick”
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In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
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This is a relentless, harrowing journey into the abyss of human endurance against an unforgiving natural world. It feels grand in scale yet intimately desperate, a visceral struggle for survival that grips you with its bleak, powerful intensity and the sheer, overwhelming force of the ocean.
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