

Dead Calm
High seas. Deep terror. Try to stay calm.
An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $10.4M
- Box office
- $7.8M
- Language
- English
- australia
- sense of guilt
- toxication
- loss of loved one
- shipwreck
- sailing trip
- car crash
- home invasion
- killing a dog
- sinking boat
- sail boat
- survival at sea
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR7 Apr 1989
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical153 Nov 1989
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM25 May 1989
CanadaCA
- Theatrical7 Apr 1989
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical30 Nov 1989
BelgiumBE
- TheatricalGent7 Sept 1989
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical4 Aug 1989
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-161 Sept 1989
FranceFR
- Theatrical1223 Aug 1989
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1627 Jul 1989
- Physical16DVD23 Feb 2000
HungaryHU
- Theatrical3 Jan 1991
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1522 Dec 1989
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Dead Calm was released on 7 April 1989.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
3/24/2014
Stay calm and you may yet not end up dead. Dead Calm is directed by Phillip Noyce and adapted to screenplay by Terry Hayes from the novel of the same name written by Charles Williams. It stars Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. Music is by Graeme Revell and cinematography by Dean Semler. After losing their young son in a car accident, John (Neill) and Rae Ingram (Kidman) head out alone on their yacht for …
- T6/10
tmdb47633491
5/5/2018
Perfect example of why you should check out all the movies that doggy paddled away with an average 3/5 or 6/10 or whatever. For a large minority, it's not that they're simply average; it's that they were barely given a chance
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