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The key image of "Dead Calm" is of two ships drawing near each other in the middle of a vast, empty expanse of ocean. The emotions generated by this shot, near the beginning of the film, underlie everything that follows, making us acutely aware that help is not going to arrive from anywhere, that the built-in protections of civilization are irrelevant and that the characters will have to settle their own destinies.

On board a sailing yacht are a married couple who hope that the cruise will help them deal with the death of their son. On board the other ship - a sinking schooner - is a young man who seems to be the only survivor from a tragic incident of food poisoning. He jumps into a lifeboat and rows for his life toward the yacht, where he is taken aboard. The husband, curious, goes to inspect the schooner, leaving his wife alone with the castaway, who of course turns out to be a homicidal killer.

Almost the entire movie involves these three characters in a violent game of psychological strategy. Sam Neill stars as the husband, who is stranded on the sinking ship when the killer sails away. Nicole Kidman is the wife, who has to outsmart and outfight the madman. And Billy Zane is the killer, wild-eyed and off-balance. The plot splits into two for most of the movie, with the woman on board the yacht with the killer, while her husband finds himself trapped in the hold of the sinking ship with the water rapidly rising above nose level. The counterpoint is effective.

A plot like this is probably impossible without two ancient movie traditions, the Talking Killer and the Undead Dead. Time and again in the movie, the story would be over if someone - anyone - simply pulled the trigger. There is a moment when the wife temporarily has the upper hand against this madman who has assaulted and beaten her and left her husband to drown, and what does she do? She ties him up! And with the knot in front, too - where he can get at it. Later in the film, after he appears to be dead, he reappears, of course, and has to be fought a second time.

And yet "Dead Calm" generates genuine tension, because the story is so simple and the performances are so straightforward. This is not a gimmick film (unless you count the husband's method of escaping from the sinking ship), and Kidman and Zane do generate real, palpable hatred in their scenes together.

Note: The film is based on a 1963 novel by Charles Williams , which inspired an ill-fated Orson Welles project that was suspended in 1970 and then abandoned in 1973 with the death of his leading man, Laurence Harvey . I haven't read the novel, but the story is worthy of a robust craftsman like John D. MacDonald - all except for the unnecessary prologue in the hospital, which he would have junked.

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Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) leaves his wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) in charge on their yacht Saracen, while he investigates the stricken schooner Orpheus. To his horror, the ship is full of body parts. As he rushes back, Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane) escapes from a locked cabin and takes control of the Saracen.

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The scene has great tension, built on great editing, and powered by Graeme Revell’s brilliant score – the pounding rhythm provides a kind of industrial menace. Note the graphic power of some shots – such as Billy Zane’s rise up into the binoculars’ field of view – and the superb timing of the shot just before Sam Neill jumps, where we see what he sees of his wife’s struggle.

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Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take their yacht to sea to recover from the death of a child. Becalmed in mid-ocean, they rescue a frightened young American, Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane), from a sinking schooner. While John investigates the other boat, the psychotic Hughie takes control of the yacht and leaves him behind.

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Dead Calm  is basically a dangerous hitchhiker story, set on water. The thriller elements are reduced to as few as possible – two boats, two men, one woman, one dog, and a cruel sea. Within this minimalist framework, the film carries a lot of subtext, to do with grief, passion and a form of resurrection. Rae is a broken woman at the start, marooned on a yacht with a husband who doesn’t know how angry he is. They have lost their son in a car accident in which she was driving. They are not a happy family. The stranger Hughie brings his own happy family fantasy with him.

Some of the creepiness of Zane’s performance comes from his willingness to believe Rae actually fancies him. They do have a sexual encounter in the film, but it’s shown as Rae’s ultimate self-sacrifice – and the turning point, in terms of her finding her own strength. The script, adapted from a 1963 novel by little known American pulp writer Charles Williams, plays with the conventions of the sun-sex-sailing fantasy. An idyll becomes a nightmare, and the sea (usually depicted in literature as female) rises up to punish them – or perhaps to aid another female. (The novel had been filmed already, in 1968 by Orson Welles, but that film was never completed).

Nicole Kidman was 20 when she was cast in  Dead Calm  in 1987. She had just become an overnight star in Australia in Kennedy Miller’s TV mini-series  Vietnam . Within a year of Dead Calm’s opening in 1989, she was in Hollywood, starring opposite Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder – partly as a result of her performance in this film.  Dead Calm  also opened the Hollywood door for director Noyce. He would not make another film in Australia until  Rabbit-Proof Fence , 13 years later.

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Reviews/Film; A Psychological Drama Of Nightmares and Death

Phillip Noyce's ''Dead Calm'' is an unsettling hybrid of escapist suspense and the kind of pure trash that depends on dead babies and murdered dogs for effect. In it, John and Rae Ingram (Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman) are a husband and wife alone on their yacht in still waters. They are joined by a classic intruder, the mysterious stranger, who in this case doesn't arrive nearly soon enough.

First, we hear about a car accident in which Rae was injured and their small son killed. This is the excuse Mr. Noyce needs to send his characters on their restful cruise, but he doesn't leave things there. He re-creates one of Rae's nightmares, and we watch a beautiful little boy clutching a teddy bear smash through the windshield of the car. ''Dead Calm'' moves above this shoddy beginning and sinks back to its sleazy level a dizzying number of times.

Based on the Charles Williams novel, which did not have dead babies or dogs, the story has no surprises, but there are plenty of opportunities for psychological suspense. (In the late 1960's, Orson Welles shot an unfinished version, called ''The Deep.'') When a lone man rows a dinghy from his stranded schooner to the Ingrams' yacht, John and the audience are instantly suspicious. All the signs of menace are there. The stranger is shot in a sinister manner from the back as he approaches. He turns slowly to reveal a handsome face whose expression seems to cry, ''I am a sadistic murderer.'' He has the improbably innocent name of Hughie, and says that everyone else on his ship, the Orpheus, has been killed by botulism from a can of salmon.

John locks Hughie in a room and heads for the Orpheus. The villain breaks out, of course, knocks Rae unconscious and sends the yacht racing away. Meanwhile, back on the schooner, John bails water and discovers bodies for most of the film. This means that Mr. Neill, who was so strong as Meryl Streep's repressed husband in ''A Cry in the Dark,'' co-stars here with a drowning engine and a temperamental radio.

Mr. Noyce is an Australian director with a meandering career. His ''Newsfront'' appeared at the 1978 New York Film Festival, and his previous film, a supposedly steamy romance called ''Echoes of Paradise,'' opened in New York just a month ago and left in a mercifully short time.

Scene for scene, he is capable of creating terror. As Hughie, Billy Zane is every bit as repugnant as he is meant to be. But the film's pace is so flaccid that Hughie and Rae might be playing a sinister game of hide-and-seek. She locks him up; he breaks through another of the yacht's many cardboard-thin doors; she devises another shaky plan to shoot or stab or drug him. She is one tough but stupid heroine, who doesn't know enough to use the kitchen knife in her hand when Hughie's back is conveniently turned.

Her incompetence leaves time for Mr. Noyce to indulge in more tasteless excess. Rae seduces Hughie to save her life, her dog meets a peculiar and graphically violent end, and ''Dead Calm,'' which opens today at the Gemini Twin and other theaters, becomes disturbing for all the wrong reasons. WATER TORTURE - DEAD CALM, directed by Phillip Noyce; screenplay by Terry Hayes, from the novel by Charles Williams; director of photography, Dean Semler; edited by Richard Francis-Bruce; music by Graeme Revell; production designer, Graham (Grace) Walker; produced by Terry Hayes, Doug Mitchell and George Miller; released by Warner Brothers. At Gemini Twin, Second Avenue and 64th Street, and other theaters. Running time: 95 minutes. This film is rated R. Rae Ingram...Nicole Kidman John Ingram...Sam Neill Hughie Warriner...Billy Zane Russell Bellows...Rod Mullinar Danny...Joshua Tilden Doctor...George Shevtsov Specialist Doctor...Michael Long

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Dead Calm is a 1989 psychological thriller about a young couple sailing the Pacific who encounter a troubled man on a damaged ship, leading to terrible danger on the open waters.

A thriller is a tricky genre, being one that relies not only on the characters to convince but a clever twist in the story to sell the premise. While not all thrillers need be psychological, those that rely on the mental game rather than a physical one tend to be the most effective, drawing us in on a more cerebral level. With director Philip Noyce ‘s Dead Calm– based on a novel of the same same by Charles Williams –most of the film is a battle of wits, that pits a psychotic killer against a man and a woman already suffering from great loss. While it’s far stronger in the first half than the second, it is a brilliant piece of filmmaking as well a curious metaphorical journey of a couple in mourning.

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With sparse dialogue and a scant, breathy score, the film depends entirely on the performances and Noyce’s direction to make it work, it’s strangely claustrophobic style, despite the great open Pacific ocean as setting, keeping it decidedly creepy. Epically long moments of silence are purposefully staged to create an almost uncomfortable level of unease as the story works to generate powerful contrasts with its characters. While not all of it always works, the symbolism does. And so does star in the making Nicole Kidman ‘s mesmerizing performance.

THE STORY : After a tragic car accident injures Rae Ingram (Kidman) and leaves her young son dead, her husband John ( Sam Neill ), an officer in the Royal Australian Navy takes her to sea on their yacht to recover and reconnect. While weeks on the water have helped, Rae is still tormented by nightmares but feeling stronger. It is then when they spot a silhouette on the horizon, another yacht John recognizes as being in trouble.

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Not long after, they notice a dinghy in the space between them, a shirtless man rowing frantically toward them. They help him aboard and the man, named Hughie ( Billy Zane ) tells of a tragedy where his boat is taking on water and the six others he was traveling with have perished from food poisoning. Naturally, John is suspicious, and when the exhausted Hughie crashes in the main bunk, John rows over to take a look. What he finds is a boat full of horror and a mistake he made in leaving his wife with Hughie.

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Meanwhile, Hughie wakes and sees what is happening, kidnapping Rae and using the motor to head away, leaving a desperate John unsuccessfully chasing after in the dinghy. Now he’s got to somehow keep the other yacht from sinking and find a what to rescue his wife. Except … Rae’s not so much a damsel in distress but rather a warrior all her own. And she has her own style of fight.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR : First of all, Noyce, who would later helm a couple of the Jack Ryan adventure films among other well-received titles, keeps this an usual and taunt little thriller, with tight piercing close-ups and character-driven action. With only the boats and the water as setting, he keeps things visually compelling, giving each yacht a personality all their own.

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But it’s the performances that sell it. As the script is barely loaded at all, the film is practically a silent movie in terms of what is said, and what is said is pretty obviously dubbed in post, however, it’s all to great advantage. The story is about physicality even as Rae must use her wits to deal the much stronger Hughie. That’s the real appeal of the film, as Rae is given a number of seemingly obvious thriller clichés that lead no where, forcing her to stay alive by other measures. She is a woman with a far greater determination than Hughie expects, and she is far smarter as well.

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A GREAT MOMENT : And this leads to a truly troubling moment when the highly-disturbed Hughie sinks further into madness, believing himself the master of the boat with the beautiful Rae as his willing partner. Smaller and unable to stop him with blunt force, Rae takes desperate steps in order to keep from falling victim.

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She’s already made contact with Jon, via a clever method I won’t divulge, so she knows she must find a way to defeat the killer so she can spin the boat around and save her husband. Realizing Hughie’s fantasy is a way to get close, she makes a heartbreaking choice in using her body to lull him to a pacifying state and buy her some time. Given what we know about her fragile mental condition and the horrors she is already trying to work through, this moment of sexual trickery is especially hard to witness, and Kidman, whose career would take flight after the film’s release, is sensational as she takes to the part with hardened ferocity. Say what you will about the movie as a whole, its style and delivery surely divisive, Kidman is a force of nature in the film and delivers huge, and if you really want to go the extreme, watch this and then 2010’s Rabbit Hole , where she also plays a women who lost a child and compare characters.

THE TALLY : Dead Calm may lose a bit of credibility in its final few minutes, but it remains a uniquely constructed experience that, for the time, was almost groundbreaking, putting a woman in the role of savior, even if it needlessly steals a bit of her power in the last shot. Still, the film, which can read as an inspiring metaphorical triumph of a couple overcoming great tragedy, is a must for film fans taken by experimental directors and progressive cinematic styles. Taunt, gripping, and a head of its time,  Dead Calm is great stuff. It’s what to watch.

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A remarkable breakout for Nicole Kidman, who gives this feminist thriller everything it deserves, and more. She plays Rae Ingram, the young wife of a naval officer (Sam Neill) who has taken them on a quiet yachting trip to help process a recent tragedy. Rae isn’t so sure about this form of therapy and asks to cut the trip short, but her husband tells her, “When you’re strong we’ll go home.”

Bad decision, the first of many he’ll make. When the couple encounters a schooner adrift, they take aboard a jittery survivor named Hughie (Billy Zane). Without spoiling the details, I’ll just say that Rae eventually finds herself alone on the boat with Hughie, who isn’t exactly what he claimed.

Zane gives a doozy of a performance. Sweaty and oily – the better to help him physically channel the Marlon Brando of A Streetcar Named Desire – he’s constantly threatening to drag the picture into camp. Slipping in and out of lunacy, as if Hughie is momentarily oblivious to the menace he’s causing, Zane is more of an amusing presence than a threatening one.

It’s telling that Kidman can register so effectively in the face of Zane’s showboating.

It’s telling, really, that Kidman can register so effectively in the face of Zane’s showboating. She charts Rae’s transformation from helpless, grief-stricken woman to empowered heroine without pandering to caricature in either direction. She’s fully Rae – intense, alert, intelligent – in the first scene and the last. Dead Calm is, at heart, an awakening movie (it isn’t until Rae’s husband is quite literally set aside that she’s able to discover the strength she has within) and Kidman’s intimate performance makes this both an exterior and interior journey for the audience.

Credit is also due to director Phillip Noyce, who earned a Hollywood career on the strength of his work here. As Hughie and Rae play mind games on the yacht, Noyce’s camera races in and out of corridors and portholes as if it’s running through a hamster maze. Rather than emphasize the claustrophobia of the quarters, he chooses to play up the vessel’s many possibilities – an ingenious touch. Also effective is the decision to shoot most of the action on an eerily calm sea; there’s a latently sinister quality to the mirrored surface that no storm – including the one that appears near the end – could quite match.

I’m not sure we needed the over-the-top epilogue. Again, better not to spoil details, except to note that the sequence delivers a comical dose of comeuppance and also somewhat undercuts Dead Calm ’s feminist drive. It’s fun, I guess, but unnecessary. By this point Kidman had the movie well in hand.

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Format Color, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC, DVD, Full Screen
Contributor Charles Williams, Terry Hayes, Billy Zane, Paula Hudson-Brinkley, Malinda Rutter, Lisa Collins, Phillip Noyce, Rod Mullinar, George Shevtsov, Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Sharon Cook, Joshua Tilden, Benji, Michael Long
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A suspense thriller about a husband and wife, recovering from a personal tragedy, who encounter a stranger while cruising their boat in the Pacific and become ensnared in a drama of mystery, high emotions and extreme danger.

There are several occasions when this rousing Australian thriller from 1987 should have ended with a well-placed shot from a speargun or a stronger knot of rope, but you don't think about these nit-picky details when you're being scared out of your wits. In a role that catapulted her to international stardom, Nicole Kidman plays a young wife who's joined her husband (Sam Neill) on a yachting trip to recover from the tragic death of their son. Far out to sea, they encounter a sinking ship with one survivor (Billy Zane, ten years before Titanic ), but inviting him aboard turns out to be a very bad mistake. While Neill attempts to salvage the sinking boat, Kidman is fighting for her life against the psychotic Zane--a villain so creepy that you eagerly look forward to his demise. By the time that moment arrives director Phillip Noyce has resorted to a typical slasher-movie climax (proving that no boat should be without a flare gun), but until then Dead Calm is a nail-biting thriller that's guaranteed to keep you in a state of nail-biting suspense. --Jeff Shannon

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Phillip Noyce
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC, DVD, Full Screen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 36 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ December 7, 1999
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, Joshua Tilden
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 6305161933
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Charles Williams, Terry Hayes
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A Closer Look at Nicole Kidman's Yacht Houkalani

Ever since 1969, Sunseeker has been one of the companies at the cutting edge of luxury yacht design. The company’s founder, Robert Braithwaite, used new materials and technology to give a small group of customers a new experience on the sea. And since the 1960s, the company have become one of the leading experts in luxurious boat design.

One of their most noteworthy customers is Nicole Kidman

It’s expected for successful actors and actresses, businessmen and entrepreneurs to own expensive things such as enormous mansions, expensive cars, and luxury yachts, and actress Nicole Kidman is no exception. Like the director Steven Spielberg, Nicole has bought a luxury yacht and named it the Hokulani. The name has a great significance for this actress, who was actually born on the Hawaiian island Oahu, and according to this article from E-News , her parents actually gifted her with the Hawaiian name Hokulani, a name Nicole’s husband, Keith Urban sometimes refers to her as. Hokulani means heavenly star in Hawaiian.

Crowned the richest celebrity of Australia, according to this Daily Mail article for 2017, Nicole Kidman has starred in numerous successful movies, such as Moulin Rouge, and her success is shown in her collection of mansion houses such as the Bunya Hill property, which cost the actress $6.7 million, according to this Youtube video, but it is her luxury yacht, the Hokulani which is the subject of this article. The Hokulani is a “Sunseeker Manhattan 74” luxury yacht, costing Nicole Kidman a cool $ 4.5 million to buy, and according to this Youtube video which goes into detail about the 9 most expensive things this great actress has already, the yacht contains every amenity anyone could wish for. According to Club Yacht’s article on the actress’s yacht, the Sunseeker can travel at 29 knots thanks to its twin MTU-4000 engines. The interior luxuries were the brainchild of the design team based in Nuvolari-Lenard, and owners other than Nicole Kidman can enjoy furnishings done in natural wood and fittings which provide an air of elegance, while large windows offer passengers tremendous views of the outside world.

The Hokulani is perfect if you want to have a fun time on the ocean, and in the summer months, Nicole frequently travels on the Hokulani. And why shouldn’t she? It has an on-deck wet-bar with showers which can issue hot or cold water, a luxury saloon, a well-stocked galley (kitchen in ocean terms), five luxurious cabins complete with en-suite bathrooms with provided entertainment facilities so the guests won’t become bored on a cruise and a living area which provides great entertainment should the actress have guests staying with her onboard the yacht. Even better - she and anyone with her can enjoy the water sports. The Hokulani, as a Sunseeker luxury yacht has waterski’s provided, along with tows to PWC’s, and snorkeling equipment and wakeboards.

Unfortunately, it isn’t all fun and games for Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman has long since been known as one of Sydney, and indeed, one of Australia’s most favorite children, though her reputation took a battering in 2008 when she had a poor error in judgment. The actress has sparked anger because of the Hokulani. According to this article dated from 2008, from Independent , neighbors want Nicole to take the yacht away with her. Nicole once lived in a prestigious apartment building in Sydney, close to the harbor. This building is home to some of Australia’s leading celebrities. When she sold her apartment, she made the mistake of leaving behind the Hokulani. Her former neighbors were left furious, and who could blame them for the actress’ actions? She had left behind this $4.5 million yacht in the harbor for nearly a year, which contravened the by-laws which regulate life on the pier the Hokulani was moored to in Walsh Bay, which is one of Sydney’s rejuvenated success stories, and contains some of the cities most expensive and luxury homes.

The bylaws state very clearly the only people who can moor their boats and yachts at the marina which is adjacent to the property Nicole Kidman had once lived in, and some residents have event accused the local committee of showing favoritism towards the actress because they allowed the Hokulani to remain moored in the marina for a year. To the Australians, it was probably bad enough that Nicole’s starring role in the movie Australia, where she played an English aristocrat, who inherited a ranch was panned. What made it even worse was around the same time the Hokulani was moored to the marina after she had moved away, Aboriginal leaders condemned her for playing the didgeridoo, which has long since been played by men traditionally. So the last thing the actress needs is aggravation from her former neighbors, although from a certain point of view their condemnation wouldn’t be especially high when compared to the condemnation of the Aboriginal people of her home country.

Far from being ignorant of the bylaws, the Sydney star knew what she was doing. The reason she had left the Yacht moored at her former home was, as a spokesperson said, she intended to try and buy a property in the same area. It never happened. The spokesperson promised residents the Hokulani would be moved shortly, and it was, though not before its presence upset the local residents.

Dana Hanson

Written by  Dana Hanson

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What kind of boat in "Dead Calm"?

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I just watched Dead Calm again for about the tenth time and I always try to see what kind of boat it is. There are very few long shots of the boat but it looks pretty big, lilke 50+ feet, it's a ketch but other than that I can't tell. I've even watched the credits to see if it said there but it doesn't. Any ideas?  

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Google is your friend: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_company_manufactured_the_sailboat_used_in_the_movie_'Dead_Calm'  

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I have to say I'm a bit skeptical about that answer... It's been a while since I saw the movie but I don't think that boat was a) 80 feet or b) a former maxi racer.. My recollection was more of a Gulfstar 60 ish sort of boat.. But the only thing I'm sure of is that I'm not sure at all.  

Here's a trailer for the movie. You be the judge: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097162/trailers-screenplay-E11986-314  

leaning over the side I don't have the movie, but didn't she lean over the side and grasp his arm. Shat angle of heel, what speed, and how much rfeeboard. Would this not give some indication of type of boat?  

typing errors Sorry should have read before posting. Typing errors, what and freeboard were what was intended  

there you go... http://www.equinoxe.it/extranet/Stormvogel/ext.htm  

Excellent! Thanks Sasha, looks like Wiki was right on.  

There was a boat in Dead Calm? All I rember is some young, hot redheaded lass with an accent.  

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I've never found Kidman to be particularly attractive but the gratuitous underwear shots in the recent remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (called "The Invasion") proved that she is one boo-yah hottie.  

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I saw Dead Calm for the first time a few days ago on cable. My wife and I had a good laugh. First, a couple double handing a boat that size across the middle of the pacific, and without even the need for self tailing winches or an autopilot. Then when the guy gets trapped aboard the sinking boat, makes his way out, only to build a real POS raft out of junk instead of hopping back on the dinghy. Then when she's on her way to the rescue (singlehanding the 80 ft yacht no less) she leaves the boat in the capable hands of her rope tied to the wheel autopilot, and climbs up the mast to stand on the spreader for a better view. When she spots him in the dark under full sail from her mast high vantage point, she magically reappears on deck in time for her 90 pound self to snatch a 175 pound man from the sea with one hand from the windward side at 10 knots. All I've got to say is WHAT A WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!  

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Yeah dream woman .. sadly most wouldn't excerpt the effort to put it on or off <edited for PG-13>, and yet we wish...  

When she pulled him on board with one hand, my non-sailing wife looked at me and said "they haven't been practicing man overboard drills have they" She might catch on to this sailing thing some day.  

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US27inKS said: When she pulled him on board with one hand, my non-sailing wife looked at me and said "they haven't been practicing man overboard drills have they" She might catch on to this sailing thing some day. Click to expand...

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I've got something Nicole could pull with one hand onboard my boat.  

http://www.stormvogel.net/home.html  

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I just watched this again. The one handed MOB tug was impressive. But even more impressive was when she miraculously hoisted herself onto the second spreader!!! While under sail no less!!!! ...to look for her man. (At about 2:06) Why she wasn't even wearing a pfd! Ask yourself Nicole...What Would Dog Do? (PS - And another thing...why didn't Billy just use his hands to utile the rope?)  

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smackdaddy said: I just watched this again. The one handed MOB tug was impressive. But even more impressive was when she miraculously hoisted herself onto the second spreader!!! While under sail no less!!!! ...to look for her man. (At about 2:06) Why she wasn't even wearing a pfd! Ask yourself Nicole...What Would Dog Do? (PS - And another thing...why didn't Billy just use his hands to utile the rope?) Click to expand...

True - but also a rather cute bum.  

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Remind me to install a few snorkels in the boat..  

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Gentlemen, let's not get too analytical here. Dudes, it's Nicole Kidman! A ginger with perky nips and legs longer than a Ragnar post- what's not to like? arguing about the implausibilities of the acts of derring-do in the face of the bewitching evidence is like debating the badassedness of Chuck Norris- some things that is, just is.  

Another interesting item that I missed in this gripping tale. Why didn't the bad guy just reach down to his feet and untie himself? The extra length of rope would have come in handy for strangling the wench.  

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Nicole Kidman's multimillion pound Sunseeker yacht complete with luxurious features

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Home to the UK's most iconic coasts, Dorset is often able to host a whole range of world-class fleets across our many ports. Other vessels may no stop at our ports, but could roam the area at any given time to explore Dorset's coastline and take in the views.

From huge 'rockstar' cruise ships offering spectacular entertainment to luxury superyachts , Dorset has seen its fair share of impressive vessels. However, there is one stunning yacht that is owned by a very famous individual.

The Sunseeker Manhattan 74, or 74 Sport Yacht, is, as of 2018, owned by Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, which she has called Hokulani, according to Motorboat and Yachting . The yacht's name means 'heavenly star' and is said to be a nickname given to the 55-year-old actress by her parents to pay homage to her birthplace of Honolulu, Hawaii.

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The star is perhaps most known for her roles in hit films including The Hours and Moulin Rouge, though it might be less known that she owns this impressive superyacht. The Manhattan 74 is described as "undeniably a Sunseeker" boasting luxurious interior designs and interesting features.

The yacht is ideal for socialising with guests. The vessel is split over three levels, including an upper level vantage point to take in the sea views. Inside, there is the owner's room, five guest suites, the captain's cabin and even has room to sleep up to eight crew members.

The vessel's design is sleek and modern and measures in at around 22.82m. There is enough space for an entertainment room as well as a few water toys.

It is also boasted as having high-tech features, including hydraulic drop-away cockpit doors that opens up the interior living space to invite the outside. There are comfortable seating and sunpads on both sides of the vessel to ensure a relaxed space for guests to chill out and soak in some rays.

Motorboat and Yachting reportedly said that the yacht is expected to cost in the region on £2.1 million. It seems the Nicole Kidman-owned superyacht is sure to turn heads wherever she visits.

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Nicole Kidman Shared Rare Comments About Her Ex-Husband Tom Cruise, And Filming "Eyes Wide Shut"

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It's been a minute since we've heard Nicole Kidman talk about her marriage and working with her ex-husband, Tom Cruise .

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The Los Angeles Times did a retrospective with Nicole discussing her marriage to Tom and their making of Stanley Kubrick 's final film, Eyes Wide Shut .

Stanley died four months before the film's release, and it starred two of the biggest stars and one of Hollywood's most famous couples at the time: Nicole and Tom.

The film, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, was based on the 1926 novella Dream Story and centered around themes of marriage and sexuality . So, it was pretty steamy to see the real-life Hollywood couple portraying the characters.

In the LA Times interview, Nicole discussed whether Stanley "mined" her actual relationship for inspiration during filming. Surprisingly, this wasn't the first time Nicole and Tom had shared the silver screen.

Nicole and Tom met while filming the 1990 Tony Scott film, Days of Thunder. Tom played a race car driver, and Nicole was a doctor and his love interest. The real-life '90s power couple were married in December of that same year.

In 1992, the couple worked together again on Ron Howard's Far and Away. In the movie, they played Irish immigrants seeking their fortune during the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893.

That same year, they adopted their daughter Isabella. In 1995, they adopted their son Connor, with whom Tom was recently seen together in a rare photo.

In 1999, Nicole and Tom starred in Eyes Wide Shut and divorced two years later in December 2001.

On filming Eyes Wide Shut together (which famously took almost two years to complete), Nicole said, "When Tom and I first started with Stanley, it was at his home, and we didn't even go over to the sets at Pinewood [Studios]."

"Six, eight weeks passed, and we're wondering, 'Are we ever going to start?' And we just wouldn't start. We were getting comfortable with each other, comfortable enough to throw out ideas. For that scene, we improvised the beginning of it through the rehearsals," she remembered.

"We had a home 10 minutes away, but we lived in that trailer. Tom and I shared it because Stanley would say, 'You're not each getting a trailer. We can't afford it,'" she said. "S had a smaller area because he was running stuff. And he'd play video games. That was when [ Minesweeper ] was big. So there was a lot of that."

Elsewhere in the interview, Nicole discussed whether Stanley was drawing inspiration from her marriage to Tom. "I suppose he was mining it," Nicole said.

"There were ideas he was interested in. He'd ask a lot of questions. But he had a strong sense of the story he was telling. I do remember him saying, 'Triangles are hard. You have to tread carefully when it's a triangle.' Because one person could feel ganged up on. But he was aware of that and knew how to manage us."

While Nicole never felt ganged up on, she found it interesting to be the only woman in the equation — filming with her husband and the seasoned director at the time.

Eyes Wide Shut, the celebrated director Stanley Kubrick's final film and now a cult classic, always had a special touch by including Tom and Nicole.

It's remarkable that Tom and Nicole's three films together, more or less, mark the beginning, middle, and end of their relationship. So, it's refreshing to hear Nicole speak on that experience 25 years later.

If you haven't seen Days of Thunder, Far and Away, or Eyes Wide Shut — it's time you start your '90s Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman marathon.

Read the full interview here .

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Nicole Kidman's Filmography

BMX Bandits (1983)

1. BMX Bandits

Windrider (1986)

2. Windrider

Nightmaster (1988)

3. Nightmaster

Emerald City (1988)

4. Emerald City

Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm (1989)

5. Dead Calm

Days of Thunder (1990)

6. Days of Thunder

Nicole Kidman and Thandiwe Newton in Flirting (1991)

7. Flirting

Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis, and Loren Dean in Billy Bathgate (1991)

8. Billy Bathgate

Far and Away (1992)

9. Far and Away

Malice (1993)

11. My Life

Nicole Kidman in To Die For (1995)

12. To Die For

Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman, Val Kilmer, and Chris O'Donnell in Batman Forever (1995)

13. Batman Forever

The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

14. The Portrait of a Lady

George Clooney and Nicole Kidman in The Peacemaker (1997)

15. The Peacemaker

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in Practical Magic (1998)

16. Practical Magic

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

17. Eyes Wide Shut

Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge! (2001)

18. Moulin Rouge!

Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, and Fionnula Flanagan in The Others (2001)

19. The Others

Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin in Birthday Girl (2001)

20. Birthday Girl

Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep in The Hours (2002)

21. The Hours

Nicole Kidman in Dogville (2003)

22. Dogville

Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman in The Human Stain (2003)

23. The Human Stain

Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Renée Zellweger in Cold Mountain (2003)

24. Cold Mountain

Nicole Kidman in The Stepford Wives (2004)

25. The Stepford Wives

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Kidman was married to Cruise from 1990 to 2001, during which they filmed Kubrick’s final feature from 1996 to 1998, after an extensive rehearsal period. She presumes the director found inspiration in their marriage while working on the scene.

“I suppose he was mining it,” said Kidman. “There were ideas he was interested in. He’d ask a lot of questions. But he had a strong sense of the story he was telling. I do remember him saying, ‘Triangles are hard. You have to tread carefully when it’s a triangle.’ Because one person could feel ganged up on. But he was aware of that and knew how to manage us.”

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The Australian-American actress clarified she never felt ganged up on, “But there’s something about being a woman in that equation, too. And Stanley liked women. He had a different relationship with Tom. They worked more closely together on his character.”

Kidman previously reminisced about the movie in a 2017 interview with Deadline, expressing how grateful she was to have a “ slightly zen approach to things ” during the lengthy shoot. “Because I was married and I had my kids there. It wasn’t like I was rushing to get finished, to get somewhere else. I was there, with Stanley, and I didn’t care. Whatever,” she said.

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  1. Dead Calm (1989)

    Dead Calm: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar. After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.

  2. Dead Calm (film)

    Dead Calm is a 1989 Australian psychological thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane.The screenplay by Terry Hayes was based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Williams.Filmed around the Great Barrier Reef, the plot focuses on a married couple, who, after tragically losing their son, are spending some time isolated at sea, when ...

  3. Dead Calm

    Rae Ingram (Nicole Kidman) and her husband, John (Sam Neill), struggle to overcome the sudden death of their young son. In an attempt to move past their loss, the couple take their yacht out for ...

  4. Dead Calm movie review & film summary (1989)

    Nicole Kidman is the wife, who has to outsmart and outfight the madman. And Billy Zane is the killer, wild-eyed and off-balance. The plot splits into two for most of the movie, with the woman on board the yacht with the killer, while her husband finds himself trapped in the hold of the sinking ship with the water rapidly rising above nose level.

  5. Dead Calm (1989) Movie Trailer

    Dead Calm (1989). In the middle of nowhere there is nowhere to hide. A mass-murderer kidnaps and seduces a young woman after leaving her husband to die on th...

  6. Dead Calm: Two men, two boats, one woman

    yachts. Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) leaves his wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) in charge on their yacht Saracen, while he investigates the stricken schooner Orpheus. To his horror, the ship is full of body parts. As he rushes back, Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane) escapes from a locked cabin and takes control of the Saracen.

  7. Dead Calm (1989)

    Before filming began, Nicole Kidman took lessons from the owner of the Storm Vogel on how to operate the ship. During the storm sequences near the end of the film, she is actually piloting the yacht. The source novel, Charles Williams' "Dead Calm", was partially inspired by the real-life murders of a family on-board a sailing ketch off the ...

  8. Dead Calm (1989)

    Phillip Noyce. Director. Charles Williams. Novel. Terry Hayes. Writer. Written by tmdb47633491 on May 5, 2018. An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.

  9. Official Trailer

    Theatrical trailer of "Dead Calm" by Phillip Noyce. Starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, Joshua Tilden, George Shevtsov

  10. Dead Calm

    Co-produced by George Miller ("Mad Max" series, "Witches of Eastwick"), this "edge of your seat" suspense thriller tells the story of an Australian couple (Sam Neill, "Jurassic Park," and Golden Globe and Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman ("Batman Forever"), whose private yacht cruise is violently interrupted by the appearance of a mysterious lone survivor (Billy Zane, "Titanic") from a ship whose ...

  11. Reviews/Film; A Psychological Drama Of Nightmares and Death

    In it, John and Rae Ingram (Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman) are a husband and wife alone on their yacht in still waters. They are joined by a classic intruder, the mysterious stranger, who in this ...

  12. What To Watch: Nicole Kidman Becomes A Star in 'Dead Calm' (1989)

    Stylish thriller proves the young actress earned her right to superstardom. By David Duprey On Mar 29, 2017. Dead Calm is a 1989 psychological thriller about a young couple sailing the Pacific who encounter a troubled man on a damaged ship, leading to terrible danger on the open waters. A thriller is a tricky genre, being one that relies not ...

  13. Dead Calm

    Dead Calm. A remarkable breakout for Nicole Kidman, who gives this feminist thriller everything it deserves, and more. She plays Rae Ingram, the young wife of a naval officer (Sam Neill) who has taken them on a quiet yachting trip to help process a recent tragedy. Rae isn't so sure about this form of therapy and asks to cut the trip short ...

  14. Watch Dead Calm

    Dead Calm. When a veteran sailor and his wife rescue the half-delirious sole survivor of a crippled schooner on a dead-calm ocean, the skeptical husband rows to the disabled boat and finds a horrifying sight. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. When a veteran sailor and his wife rescue the ...

  15. Dead Calm (1989)

    Nicole Kidman plays Ray Ingram who is a women who just lost her child in a car accident, and is on a a yacht with her husband John, played by Sam Neil. Billy Zane plays the psychotic mass murderer. There were a few flaws such as some scenes of Sam Neil below deck of the sinking boat trying to survive.

  16. Amazon.com: Dead Calm [DVD] : Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod

    John (Sam Neill) and wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take a trip on their yacht, yearning for isolation, solitude and a chance to heal after the catastrophic loss of their young son. This isolation comes back to haunt them later, as they appear to be in the middle of the ocean, and help is far away. After picking up a man in a rowboat (Billy Zane, in ...

  17. Five thriller films set on boats, from Nicole Kidman turn that got Tom

    From Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie adaptation getting a new turn in 2021 with Kenneth Branagh at the helm, to Dead Calm, early Nicole Kidman thriller, we recall the lure of murder and mayhem ...

  18. A Closer Look at Nicole Kidman's Yacht Houkalani

    The Hokulani is a "Sunseeker Manhattan 74" luxury yacht, costing Nicole Kidman a cool $ 4.5 million to buy, and according to this Youtube video which goes into detail about the 9 most expensive things this great actress has already, the yacht contains every amenity anyone could wish for. According to Club Yacht's article on the actress ...

  19. What kind of boat in "Dead Calm"?

    127 posts · Joined 2007. #1 ·Jan 10, 2008. I just watched Dead Calm again for about the tenth time and I always try to see what kind of boat it is. There are very few long shots of the boat but it looks pretty big, lilke 50+ feet, it's a ketch but other than that I can't tell. I've even watched the credits to see if it said there but it doesn't.

  20. Nicole Kidman's multimillion pound Sunseeker yacht complete with

    The Sunseeker Manhattan 74, or 74 Sport Yacht, is, as of 2018, owned by Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, which she has called Hokulani, according to Motorboat and Yachting. The yacht's name means 'heavenly star' and is said to be a nickname given to the 55-year-old actress by her parents to pay homage to her birthplace of Honolulu, Hawaii.

  21. The -, Nicole Kidman film

    The -, Nicole Kidman film. Today's crossword puzzle clue is a general knowledge one: The -, Nicole Kidman film. We will try to find the right answer to this particular crossword clue. Here are the possible solutions for "The -, Nicole Kidman film" clue. It was last seen in The Daily Mirror general knowledge crossword.

  22. The 20 best movies of Nicole Kidman

    1. The Hours. 2002 1h 50m PG-13. 7.5 (140K) Rate. 80 Metascore. The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. Director Stephen Daldry Stars Meryl Streep Nicole Kidman Julianne Moore. 2.

  23. Nicole Kidman Shared Rare Comments About Her Ex-Husband Tom ...

    In the final film from the director of "The Shining," real-life '90s couple Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise left audiences wondering how much their relationship inspired their characters on screen.

  24. Nicole Kidman's Filmography

    8. Billy Bathgate. 1991 1h 46m R. 5.9 (13K) Rate. In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz. Director Robert Benton Stars Dustin Hoffman Nicole Kidman Loren Dean. 9. Far and Away.

  25. Nicole Kidman Says Stanley Kubrick Mined Tom Cruise Marriage For Film

    As Nicole Kidman marks 25 years since Eyes Wide Shut, she's reflecting on making the movie with her co-star and then-husband Tom Cruise. The Academy Award winner recalled working with writer ...