Adrift

Adrift 2018

• Director: Baltasar Kormákur
• Based on book by Tami Ashcraft and Susea McGearhart
• Cast: Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Shailene Woodley – The Descendants
• Sam Claflin – Their Finest, The Snow White Chronicles The Huntsman Winter’s War, The Hunger Games, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Pillars of the Earth
• Why? Possibly interesting
• Seen: 29 December 2019

             Young Tami (Woodley) wanders the world, surfing and sailing and going where the winds blow her. On Tahiti she meets Richard (Claflin), also a drifter. They go off together in a boat heading for the infinite horizon. After a few foolhardy adventures, during which they fall in love, they run into a hurricane. The boat is severely damaged, Richard is badly injured. Tami is not a good sailor. Somehow, they have to get to Hawaii.

       Day by day they survive. I’m sure it was dreadful for them (true story) but it makes for a rather boring film. The banal love story (zero chemistry) and shallow characters (despite their unhappy childhoods) don’t help.

       The surprise ending does though. A little.

      

2½ * of 5 (Hal says 3)