Movies: Dead Calm

About this episode

The episode discusses the 1989 Australian psychological thriller 'Dead Calm' and its impact on cinema.

Dead Calm is a 1989 Australian psychological thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Billy Zane. A couple sailing the Pacific to recover from personal tragedy encounter a stranger adrift on a sinking vessel — and what follows is one of the most tense, claustrophobic cat-and-mouse thrillers ever made. Shot almost entirely at sea, it launched Nicole Kidman to international attention and proves you don't need a big budget to deliver genuine, white-knuckle suspense. Watch Dead Calm on Fetch — and for the best experience, get it up on a big screen Hisense TV.

People in this episode

Hosts: Trevor Long, Stephen Fenech

Topics covered

• psychological thriller
• film analysis
• Australian cinema
• suspense
• movie recommendations

Keywords

• Dead Calm
• Nicole Kidman
• psychological thriller
• Phillip Noyce
• suspense
• movie review

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Books & works: Dead Calm

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