Jean, This has to be the "Moby Dick "movie to end all "Moby Dick" movies. This is based on the best-selling book about the actual events that Melville used to write his fictional novel. (I read then-fiction book entitled " In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex." ). This is one real life action film with all the ingredients of all the actual events. You have the enlistment of the real crew, the voyage to the South Atlantic and then to the South Pacific, the encounter with the mammoth rogue whale, and the hardships endured by the crew that survived the numerous attacks of the whale. Ron Howard gives you your money's worth in everything here, from the gruesome details of the adrift crew to one World-Class Whale. The critics find faults with the film but I saw an exciting and an amazing true-life adventure. The actual facts of the story are more interesting than the fictional novel of Herman Melville. Dad
P.S. The previews were worth the price of admission. They were:
The Choice
The Huntsman:Winter's War
Concussion
Eye in the Sky
The Legend of Tarzan
Batman vs. Superman
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