ORIGINAL TITLE: The Perfect Storm 
YEAR: 2000   
 
RUNNING TIME: 129 min. 
COUNTRY: USA 
DIRECTOR: Wolfgang Petersen 
SCREENWRITER: Bill Wittliff (Novel: Sebastian Junger) 
COMPOSER: James Horner 
CINEMATOGRAPHER: John Seale 
CAST: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Allen Payne, Bob Gunton, Joe Reitman 
STUDIO/PRODUCER: Warner Bros. Pictures 
GENRE: Adventure / Drama 
SYNOPSIS/PLOT: Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait.