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A perfect Christmas gift
13 Kids, 3 Adults, The adventure of a life time. Those of you who are looking for an adventure of epic proportions that will take you over two oceans and dozens of islands with a group of equally interesting and at times disturbing characters, buckle up because you're in for one hell of a ride. This film was done perfectly, for once the film is better then the book (or so I've heard) and the final outcome can bring any minority, peoples of all ages and all professions to tears. The first time I saw this I was probably six years old and by the end of it my eight year old brother had become claustrophobic and huddled himself in a corner and my mother was crying. If I hadn't had been so busy laughing at them, I would have probably done the same. What happened out on the sea to those boys over forty years ago can only be described as a tragedy. A tragedy after finding themselves and the meaning to many things that they left on shore. This film truly honors those months that they spent together out on the crest and the weeks in which they were interrogated and put to trial after losing their friends in helpless cases. Shocking and worthy of such honorable men.

Mat Perrin, esq.


An outstanding movie about personal accountability.
This is one of my favorite movies and one that I think Jeff Bridges should be proud of. I am not sure that everyone can appreciate what it means to go to sea and what it means to young people to be accountable for their actions and for one to take personal responsibility for an outcome regardless whether they are at fault. These are foreign concepts to most folks in this day and age where personal entitlement counts over personal responsibility. This movie preserves that notion without resorting to a feel good ending where everybody wins in the end.

Wishy Washy
I, for one, don't understand the loyalty that the kids showed their Captain in the final scenes. Nothing at sea convinced me that there was *any* kind of bonding going on whatsoever between anyone. When bonding issues did arise, they appeared faked, phony, and I didn't buy them for a second.

This is an interesting film to watch if you want to see a bunch of young, attractive boys running around practically naked most of the film. I can't imagine that the *real* cast (as this was based on a true story) had nearly an entire crew of attractive boys, so I don't understand so many pretty faces were cast. What happened to average boys? Fat boys? There was one boy who wore thick glasses, but I ignored him, as he seemed to be the requisite.

It's also an interesting film to watch if you want to see the ocean. Ridley Scott may not be the greatest at evoking emotions within the characters he directs, but he shoots one heck of a scene.

About 2/3 of the way through this film I asked myself, "Why am I still watching this? There's no plot, nothing of interest is happening, so what am I doing?" I did stop watching it, in fact, but then finished the last third two days later. At the end of the movie something actually happens, and it's very moving. It has to do with what the film is named for: a white squall. A white squall is a violent tropical or subtropical storm that stirs up the surface of the sea into whitecaps, but is limited to a very localized area, often with no storm clouds present. This was pretty much the case here, although I thought I spotted a few storm clouds. I won't say what happens when the white squall hits the ship, because if I do this review won't be published, but I will say that the film's only moments of quality come during the storm, and on land shortly thereafter (although on land, it's still a tad hoaky). The handling of the two events I write of raised this from a 2 star review to a 3 star review.

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