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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4779085, member: 44"] [B]Adrift[/B] (2018) This movie stars Shailene Woodley as Tami Oldham a woman who survived 41 days adrift in the Pacific. The premise is Oldham is a bit of a free spirit traveling from place to place earning enough money to "get to the next place". He had worked a few jobs as a cook sailboat picked up some of the fundamentals of sailing. Upon arriving in Tahiti she meets Richard in the to begin a fast romance which appears that it might get an equally fast end when Richard is offered a job sailing a boat from Tahiti to San Diego. It's not much of a spoiler to say that a big storm cripples the boat leading to the the reason for the title. During the hurricane, Richards sends Tami to the relative safety below decks just before a huge wave hits. Tami is knocked unconscious and wakes up 21 hours later in a boat that is half filled with water. making her way up to the deck she sees the masts have been broken off and Richard is nowhere to be found. Eventually she spots in an overturned life boat drifting in the distance. She must repair her boat so she can make some progress to getting to the lifeboat in the hopes that Richard is there. The bulk of the movie deals with her attempts to do that and then her decision to abandon trying to get to San Diego and instead choosing to make the 1500 mile trip to Hawaii based upon favorable winds and tides. This movie reminds me of the early Nicole Kidman movie Dead Calm in many ways, including the struggle to get out from below decks and the need to rig repairs of a boat to make it functional enough to get to a loved one. (For what it's worth, that's actually a pretty good movie if you stumble onto it.) The Director chooses to present the movie in a non-linear path. The movie starts with Tami trapped below decks but then interspaces the backstory of her life and her romance with Richard. Sometimes that's a little annoying, but I understand why the choice was made. I suspect the prospect of the monotony of being stuck at sea didn't feel like effective cinema. I wonder if it would have worked, however, to give a better sense of the length of the voyage and her struggles . Overall it definitely is a watchable movie. Woodley is terrific in The Fault in our Stars, and capable in the Divergent series. I don't remember her from anything since then. She does a capable job in this movie, but her performance might've been sharpened if she wasn't also the producer. [/QUOTE]

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