Dead calm

Dead Calm (titled Total Calm in Spain and Terror a Bordo in Latin America) is a film shot in co-production between the United States and Australia, based on the novel of the same name by Charles Williams.

Plot

After their baby is killed in a car accident, John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) find themselves sailing on their yacht at sea, far from all shores. They have picked up the sails and are enjoying the calm and good weather. Some distance away they spot a strange-looking ship, and see a small boat with a man approaching his yacht. The man explains that a serious accident has occurred on the ship, that it is sinking and he is the only survivor. John has doubts and decides to personally go to the ship to find out what the reality is. Once he's gone, the man from the boat takes control of the yacht and sails away. Meanwhile John is trapped on the sinking ship.

Cast

• Sam Neill: John Ingram, a captain of the Royal Australian Navy.
• Nicole Kidman: Rae Ingram, your wife.
• Billy Zane: Hughie Warriner, a shipwreck.

Production

• The shooting took place at Gold Coast, at the Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton Island and Sydney.
• Charles Williams' novel had already been adapted by Orson Welles The Deep (1970).
• Sam Neill met his wife, the Noriko Watanabe makeup artist, during the shooting.
• Total calm was the first soundtrack of the prestigious composer Graeme Revell.

Soundtrack

• Who Stole The Isopropyl Alcoholby Tim O'Connor
• No-Mad, interprett by Tim O'Connor
• Nova York Turnpikeby Tim O'Connor
• The Lion Sleeps Tonightby The Tokens
• Wired For Soundby SPK

Fundraising

The film grossed $2,444,407 in Australia alone, plus $4,253,268 in the US. Worldwide it reached $7,825,009.