Movie
The Mercy
Overview
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
Details
- Release date
- 2018-02-09
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure
- Status
- Released
- Production
- BBC Film, Blueprint Pictures, StudioCanal UK
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst
- Rachel Weisz as Clare Crowhurst
- David Thewlis as Rodney Hallworth
- Mark Gatiss as Ronald Hall
- Genevieve Gaunt as 'Miss Teignmouth'
- Jonathan Bailey as Ian Wheeler
- Andrew Buchan as Ian Milburn
- Simon McBurney as Sir Francis Chichester
- Eleanor Stagg as Rachel Crowhurst
- Ken Stott as Stanley Best
- Finn Elliot as James Crowhurst
- Kit Connor as Simon Crowhurst
Crew
- James Marsh - Director
- Scott Z. Burns - Writer
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