The Big Blue Image
Metascore

Generally unfavorable - based on 5 Critics

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

Summary: Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory...
Production: Gaumont
Genres: Drama, Romance
Countries: USA, France, Italy
Languages: English, French, Italian
Home Release Date: Aug 15, 2000
Director Credit
Luc Besson Director
Writer Credit
Jacques Mayol Screenplay
Luc Besson Story
Marc Perrier Screenplay
Marilyn Goldin Screenplay
Robert Garland Screenplay
Principal Cast Credit
Jean Reno Enzo Molinari
Jean-Marc Barr Jacques Mayol
Rosanna Arquette Johana Baker
Cast Credit
Alessandra Vazzoler La Mamma (Enzo's Mother)
Andréas Voutsinas Priest
Bruce Guerre-Berthelot Young Jacques
Geoffrey Carey Supervisor
Griffin Dunne Duffy
Jean Bouise Uncle Louis
Kimberly Beck Sally
Marc Duret Roberto
Patrick Fontana Alfredo
Paul Shenar Dr. Laurence
Sergio Castellitto Novelli
Valentina Vargas Bonita
Producer Credit
Bernard Grenet Line Producer
Claude Besson Executive Producer
Luc Besson Co-Producer
Monty Diamond Line Producer: New York
Patrice Ledoux Producer
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