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RELEASED:
2018
DIRECTOR(s):
Baltasar Kormákur
PERSONAL RATING:
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Five months before the
hurricane, Tami Oldham arrives in Tahiti on board the schooner Sofia and
meets Richard Sharp, a British sailor. Richard invites Tami for dinner
aboard his boat Mayaluga. The two of them spend more time together and
begin to plan a trip to sail to Japan.
While downtown one day, Tami and Richard bump into Peter and Christine
Crompton, owners of Hazaña, a luxury Trintella 44 yacht. The Cromptons
offer Richard $10,000 and a return first-class ticket back to Tahiti to
sail Hazaña to San Diego, California. Richard accepts the offer, on the
condition that Tami come along and that they also give her a return
ticket. Later, he proposes to Tami with a handmade ring, and she accepts.
The couple depart aboard Hazaña, and after many uneventful days at sea,
Tami and Richard receive news of an approaching cyclone, Hurricane
Raymond, but decide to continue to San Diego anyway. As the storm hits,
Tami tries to radio for help, with no response. The storm alters course
and the yacht enters the eye of the storm. Richard and Tami have no choice
but to lower the sails to prevent the boat from capsizing. Tami almost
falls off the yacht as she is hit by powerful waves. Richard professes his
love for her and demands that she go below where she will be safer. Hazaña
is repeatedly flipped as she is hit by a towering wave. Tami is thrown
about, suffering a head wound. Richard is thrown overboard after being
knocked unconscious by the mast and his safety harness breaks. He slowly
sinks into the ocean, while Hazaña is flipped, rights herself, and floats
to the surface.
Tami regains consciousness and struggles to understand what has happened.
She urgently searches the crippled yacht in hopes of finding Richard and
realizes that he was swept overboard. Tami screams in anguish and it is
revealed that she is all alone, with no ships or land in sight. Tami finds
that the engine will not start, and no one hears her radioed distress
calls. She believes she has spotted the lost dinghy with Richard clinging
to it, and she tries to steer the yacht towards him. She falls off and
nearly drowns as she swims to rescue Richard. After dragging him aboard,
Tami realizes that he has broken ribs and a shattered right shin. She
fashions a makeshift sail using a broken pole and a storm jib, allowing
her to sail toward Hawaii.
One night, she sees a large cargo ship heading straight for Hazaña and
fires multiple flares, but the ship sails on past them. Tami wonders if
she has been hallucinating, and Richard begins to suffer from a high
fever. As the sun rises the next morning, Richard reminds Tami that a red
morning sky warns of an approaching storm. Expecting a storm to hit, Tami
prepares by creating a makeshift shelter, though the storm turns out to be
just a minor squall.
The next day, Richard has disappeared. Tami realizes that the injured
Richard on board Hazaña was nothing but a hallucination and surrenders to
the reality that Richard was lost at sea. On the 41st day, Tami finally
spots land and a Japanese research vessel in the distance and fires off
two flares, successfully attracting its attention. The vessel lowers food
and water supplies to Tami and tows Hazaña to shore. Tami returns to
Tahiti after recovering and visits Richard's boat, bursting into tears
after seeing the photos of Richard and herself. She goes to the beach with
a frangipani flower, places her engagement ring around the flower, and
lets it go in the water.
It is revealed in the credits that Richard Sharp was swept overboard and
never found; Tami Oldham Ashcraft survived alone aboard Hazaña for a total
of 41 days before she was rescued. She continues to be an avid sailor.
During the credits, a series of news articles, pictures and a video of the
actual Tami and Richard are shown. |
