
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

Owen Chase

George Pollard

Matthew Joy

Old Thomas Nickerson

Herman Melville

Mrs. Nickerson

Young Thomas Nickerson

Thomas Chappel

Owen Coffin
> We actually know this story, but not the truth until now! Ron Howard's latest sea adventure, stars Chris Hemsworth in an important role. So the people comparing it with 'Moby Dick', because both the film is about the same story, but one was inspired and the other one was, I mean this film was based on the actual event. I had seen the BBC film 'The Whale', not a bad film for a low budget television film. Most importantly, it revealed the truth about what I was not aware of from one of my favourite sea adventure films. I never read the book, but saw the British version, so I knew what I'...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$100,000,000.00
Revenue $93,900,000.00