June 30 2000 

THE PERFECT STORM opens. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Written by William D. Wittliff, from the book by Sebastian Junger. The 1991 all-hands-lost sinking of a commercial swordfishing vessel Andrea Gail off the Massachusetts coast during a monster storm is the staggering, computer crafted money shot in superior man against nature epic. With George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, William Fichtner and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

 

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