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All Is Lost

2013 · TMDB 6.6

Directed by J.C. Chandor

During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may carry him into a shipping lane -- but, with supplies dwindling and the sharks circling, the sailor is forced to face his own mortality.

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Robert Redford, alone on a yacht in the Indian Ocean, must survive after a collision with a shipping container. A nearly wordless tour de force of improvisation and endurance.

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