Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Spain, United States, Australia
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Mild
The story
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
- sea
- suicide
- ship
- ocean
- whale
- shipwreck
- hunger
- based on true story
- survival
- stranded
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Chris Hemsworth
Owen Chase
Benjamin Walker
George Pollard
Cillian Murphy
Matthew Joy
Brendan Gleeson
Old Thomas Nickerson
- Ben Whishaw — Herman Melville
- Michelle Fairley — Mrs. Nickerson
- Tom Holland — Young Thomas Nickerson
- Paul Anderson — Thomas Chappel
- Frank Dillane — Owen Coffin
- Joseph Mawle — Benjamin Lawrence
- Edward Ashley — Barzallai Ray
- Sam Keeley — Ramsdell
- Osy Ikhile — Richard Peterson
- Gary Beadle — William Bond
- Jamie Sives — Isaac Cole
- Directed
- Ron Howard
- Written
- Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa, Charles Leavitt
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 4,468 ratings
- Studio
- Imagine Entertainment, Spring Creek Pictures, Roth Films, Kjam Media, Cott Productions, Surf Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
