THE BOUNTY, written by Robert Bolt, and directed by Roger Donaldson, opens nationally. Anthony Hopkins as the puritanical Capt. William Bligh Mel Gibson as the treasonous Fletcher Christian bring their formidable, star-powered singleminded conviction to this robust, handsomely mounted, third screen iteration of the infamous 1789 mutiny. With a young Liam Neeson and Daniel-Day Lewis.