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Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Starring: Caroline Goodall, Jeff Bridges
  • Summary: A group of boys learn about life and death during their senior year as the crew on the ship Albatross.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 21
  2. Negative: 3 out of 21
  1. Scott is able to make it fresh and lyrical, as well as give us rousingly exciting scenes of nature in eruption. [02 Feb 1996]
  2. 75
    Amid the action heroics of White Squall, Bridges creates a character of consequence.
  3. Reviewed by: Kim Newman
    60
    A curiously compulsive drama that for all its inevitable Dead Sailors’ Society trappings is still highly entertaining.
  4. Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    30
    This is, or was, a true story, but invested as it is with relentlessly cliched emotions, it plays like cheap fiction.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. ThatemW.
    8
    Great family movie and not a bad little sailing movie too. Recomend it to most. Of course not an action movie either.
  2. JosephB.
    7
    I thought this movie worked pretty well as a combination of coming-of-age and action-adventure treatments. In the end though, this film is about a tragedy and makes us sad. This proves though that it is successful and well structured, in that we come to care about the characters and mourn their fates. Very watchable and keeps your interest up. Expand

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