Poseidon
Warner Bros. Pictures / Virtual Studios

Action Adventure. When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler John Dylan (Josh Lucas) ignores captain’s orders (Andre Braugher) to wait below for possible rescue and sets out to find his own way to safety. What begins as a solo mission soon draws others as Dylan is followed by a desperate father (Kurt Russell) searching for his daughter (Emmy Rossum) and her fiancé (Mike Vogel), a young couple who hours before couldn’t summon the courage to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges. Along the way they are joined by a single mother (Jacinda Barrett) and her wise-beyond-his-years son (Jimmy Bennett), an anxious stowaway (Mia Maestro) and a despondent fellow passenger (Richard Dreyfuss) who boarded the ship not sure he wanted to live but now knows he doesn’t want to die. Determined to fight their way to the surface, the group sets off through the disorienting maze of twisted steel in the upside-down wreckage. As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn’t even know they possessed, fighting against time for their own survival and for each other.


Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Writer: Mark Protosevich, based on the novel by Paul Gallico
Producers: Wolfgang Petersen, Mike Fleiss, Duncan Henderson, Akiva Goldsman

Executive Producers: Kevin Burns, Jon Jashni, Sheila Allen, Benjamin Waisbren

Cast: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel,
Jimmy Bennett, Mia Maestro, with Andre Braugher and Richard Dreyfuss

Release Date: May 12, 2006

This film has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril.

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