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White Squall Tires
Lucy Mohl
A sea-worthy piece of filmmaking craftsmanship; director Ridley Scott has his eye on the beauty of the waves and the power of the sea, while star Jeff Bridges and a buff young male crew are left holding the drama together without much of a script. Set in the Kennedy era, and based on a true story, the center-piece of the drama is a disaster at sea, but the real theme is about boys growing into young men, and the trials that they face — emotionally and physically — with Bridges, stern, severe and ideally cast, leading them as a bronzed, Iron John father-figure.
The dialogue has that Dead Poet’s Society melodramatic ring, up to and including a final quasi-courtroom scene that (pardon us) goes overboard, but the intensity of the performances ring true, the climactic storm is a brilliant showpiece, and Scott brings a rough, brave quality to the enterprise. Tattered and torn by the end, White Squall manages to hang together through the roughest seas.
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