A spooky, moving doc that chronicles the first solo attempt to circle the world by boat.
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08/29/07
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
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
Not only is this an incredible saga of Jack London proportions, it's also a great detective tale.
08/24/07
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
His story is a footnote in sailing history, to be sure, but a fascinating one.
08/24/07
Humane and haunting.
08/24/07
Deep Water successfully combines the pressure of the competition with an intriguing character study of the increasingly desperate Crowhurst.
08/24/07
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
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
A true-life tale of inadvertent self-destruction, Deep Water's generic title belies its haunting incisiveness.
08/23/07
Given that the tedium of months on the open seas could and did drive a man insane, co-directors Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell have done a commendable job of making Deep Water... well, not boring.
08/21/07
Deep Water confirms all the mythical terrors that lurk in our dreams of the sea, and the best person to watch it with would be Melville.
08/20/07
Top Critic[An] expertly assembled and engrossing documentary.
07/14/07
Top CriticCharting the thin line between courage and foolhardiness, it’s a poignant portrayal of the excruciating emotional odyssey of all involved.
07/14/07
A sad story, but well told, with respect for its subject and an eye for the Shakespearian tragedy in the tale.
07/14/07
Top CriticThe pic should suck even landlubbers into a whirlpool of gripping adventure, overblown ambitions and sheer human folly.
07/14/07
Top CriticStories celebrating heroic journeys are commonplace, but this is a sobering, anti-heroic tale of an ordinary man who set out to attempt the extraordinary... and failed through a cruel combination of bad luck and bad judgement.
07/14/07
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