This well crafted and engaging documentary is a ripping yarn of a man's mansize adventure going horribly wrong.
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10/06/07
Deep Water (2007)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:51
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Equal parts mystery and biography, Deep Water is both an engrossing documentary and an affecting treatise on human folly and obsession.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. Sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, the... [More]
Director: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
Reviews for Deep Water
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10/05/07
Top CriticBut more startling are the original tape recordings and 16mm films made by the solitary competitors as they spent more than ten months alone trying to sail around the globe.
09/14/07
The details just get stranger and stranger.
01/04/08
A tangle of turbulent seas and emotions.
09/11/07
This is fascinating stuff... that would be better served by a magazine article or book.
11/02/07
As a portrait of obsession, competition and, finally, delusion, Deep Water is haunting and engrossing, and one of the best nonfiction movies of the year.
11/08/07
Deep Water is a documentary, but it's also one part adventure film, one part Greek tragedy, and one part meditation on the role of the 'hero' in modern society.
08/30/07
The film evokes a visceral understanding of solitude at sea.
10/26/07
It is a sad, finely crafted documentary that must not be missed, if you call yourself a real film buff.
09/12/07
The documentary effectively blends contemporary and recent interviews with film and tape recordings made by Crowhurst aboard the Electron.
09/06/07
To reveal Crowhurst's decision would be to spoil a stunning tale. Deep Water is not itself comparably stunning.
09/07/07
In a sense, the subject of this film contributed a good deal of material to his cinematic biography, material that is gut-wrenchingly intimate and revelatory.
08/24/07
Deeply researched and compellingly presented, Deep Water is as much about one man’s misadventures on the ocean as it is about loneliness, desperation and the danger of dreams.
10/25/07
It is the point -- and the power -- of Deep Water that the vast, unknowable fathoms of the sea are rivaled only by those of the human psyche.
08/23/07
Echoes the dark poetry of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym, men who sailed to sea in search of fortune only to encounter the abyss within themselves.
08/24/07
engaging
08/02/09
Charting the thin line between courage and foolhardiness, it’s a poignant portrayal of the excruciating emotional odyssey of all involved.
07/14/07
A spooky, moving doc that chronicles the first solo attempt to circle the world by boat.
08/29/07
Nearly 40 years after he attempted to transcend his everyday life of limited horizons and money troubles, Osmond and Rothwell offer a fitting tribute to Crowhurst and his impossible dream.
08/25/07
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