White Squall | |
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Directed by | Ridley Scott |
Screenplay by | Todd Robinson |
Based on | The Last Voyage of the Albatross by Charles Gieg |
Produced by | Mimi Polk Gitlin Rocky Lang |
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Cinematography | Hugh Johnson |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling |
Music by | Jeff Rona |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $38 million[1] |
Box office | $10.3 million (United States)[2] |
White Squall is a 1996 American disaster survival film directed by Ridley Scott. It is a coming of age film in which a group of high school and college-aged teenagers sign up for several months of training aboard a sailing ship, a brigantine, and travel around half the globe when suddenly they are challenged by a severe storm. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto and Balthazar Getty.
The film was based on the 1962 book The Last Voyage of the Albatross by Charles Gieg Jr. and Felix Sutton.