Dead Calm
Year: | 1988 |
Director: | Phillip Noyce |
Cast: | Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane |
A grieving couple (Kidman and Neill) take a boat trip to get over the death of their infant son in a car accident. While out on the water, a stranger (Zane) shows up claiming to have survived a shipwreck, but with a much darker agenda.
The intricacies of the plot aren't strong enough to have stayed in my memory, but it was sold as a tightly strung thriller full of tension you could cut with a knife, a mood it mostly achieved (apart from the incredibly implausible lightning strike that traps Neill inside the abandoned boat).