Based on the true story
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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Cast
- Colin FirthDonald Crowhurst
- Rachel WeiszClare Crowhurst
- David ThewlisRodney Hallworth
- Mark GatissRonald Hall
- Genevieve Gaunt'Miss Teignmouth'
- Jonathan BaileyIan Wheeler
- Andrew BuchanIan Milburn
- Simon McBurneySir Francis Chichester
- Eleanor StaggRachel Crowhurst
- Ken StottStanley Best
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- James MarshDirector
- Scott Z. BurnsWriter
- Éric GautierDirector of Photography
- Jóhann JóhannssonOriginal Music Composer
- Jinx GodfreyEditor
- Joan SobelEditor
- Scott Z. BurnsProducer
- Peter CzerninProducer
- Jacques PerrinProducer
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