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With: Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Mía Maestro, Jimmy Bennett, Andre Braugher
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Written by: Mark Protosevich, based on a novel by Paul Gallico
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Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril
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Running Time: 98
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Date: 05/12/2006
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Boat Cheese
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
This remake of The Poseidon Adventure (1972) — and also based on a novel by Paul Gallico — makes for perfect New Year's disaster viewing. Poseidon is set on a huge, luxury ocean liner and kicks off with a glamorous New Year's Eve party and midnight countdown, before the ship is hit with a "rogue wave." (It sounds ridiculous but apparently it's a real thing.) A handful of passengers (Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, etc.) must make their way to the bottom (now the top) of the overturned ship. It's full of cliches — white people survive the longest, women need to be rescued, etc. — but director Wolfgang Petersen (who also made the great submarine thriller Das Boot) creates tight, gripping sequences of suspense, and wraps up the whole thing in a compact 98 minutes.
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