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The Mercy (2018)

PG-1302/09/2018Drama, Adventure1h 42m

Based on the true story

Overview

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Colin Firth

    Donald Crowhurst

  2. Cast 1

    Rachel Weisz

    Clare Crowhurst

  3. Cast 1

    David Thewlis

    Rodney Hallworth

  4. Cast 1

    Mark Gatiss

    Ronald Hall

  5. Cast 1

    Genevieve Gaunt

    'Miss Teignmouth'

  6. Cast 1

    Jonathan Bailey

    Ian Wheeler

  7. Cast 1

    Andrew Buchan

    Ian Milburn

  8. Cast 1

    Simon McBurney

    Sir Francis Chichester

  9. Eleanor Stagg

    Rachel Crowhurst

Based on the true story of aspiring round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth) this rather disappointingly sluggish drama tries to engage us in the man's lifelong passion. A passion that jeopardises his business, puts him into debt and relegates his wife and two young children to second place as he reckons he can circumnavigate the globe in his catamaran. This isn't a story that I was aware of, historically, but the facts are undeniable so it's really all down to how director James Marsh tells us the story of the determined man. In that respect this doesn't really deliver. Firth ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$18,000,000.00

Revenue $4,536,348.00

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