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Based on the incredible true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), and his attempt to win the first single - handed...
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Directed by James Marsh, the film follows the true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his disastrous attempt to sail around the world on his own as part of a race - London, United Kingdom - Tuesday 6th February 2018
He finally gets his movie star moment in Dunkirk when, after his RAF pilot, Collins, is rescued from a sinking plane by Mark Rylance's band of amateur sailors, he greets his rescuers with an effortlessly debonair, «Afternoon» — as if he hadn't just come close to dying.
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This film tells the triumphant, inspiring, incredible true story of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor who decided to take on the task of competing in the 1968 Golden Globe Race - sailing around the world solo.
Following his Academy Award ® winning film The Theory of Everything, James Marsh directs the incredible true story of Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth, The King's Speech, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Railway Man), an amateur sailor who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single - handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping.
The story of Donald Crowhurst taps into the David and Goliath trope with an amateur sailor wishing to beat the odds in a round the world race.