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Release Date: 2003 Cast: Thierry Segall, James D'Arcy, Mark Lewis Jones, Lee Ingleby, David Threlfall, William Mannering, Ousmane Thiam, Bryan Dick, Jack Randall, Richard McCabe, Billy Boyd, John DeSantis ...MORE
Cast: Thierry Segall, James D'Arcy, Mark Lewis Jones, Lee Ingleby, David Threlfall, William Mannering, Ousmane Thiam, Bryan Dick, Jack Randall, Richard McCabe, Billy Boyd, John DeSantis, Chris Larkin, Edward Woodall, Tony Dolan, Patrick Gallagher, Richard Pates, Russell Crowe, Aidan Black, Alex Palmer, Robert Pugh, Joseph Morgan, Max Pirkis, Paul Bettany, Max Benitz, Ian Mercer, George Innes ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Adventure Drama, Adventure, Costume Adventure, War film, Action, Action/Adventure, Period piece, Film adaptation Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic historical drama film directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series, which has a total of 20 novels of Jack Aubrey's naval career.
At the 76th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture. It won in two categories, Best Cinematography and Best Sound... MORE
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic historical drama film directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series, which has a total of 20 novels of Jack Aubrey's naval career.
At the 76th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture. It won in two categories, Best Cinematography and Best Sound Editing and lost in all other categories to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The film takes place in May 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. Captain "Lucky Jack" Aubrey of HMS Surprise is ordered to pursue the French privateer Acheron, and "Sink, Burn, or take her a Prize." As the film opens, the British warship is ambushed by Acheron; Surprise is heavily damaged, while its own cannon fire does not penetrate the enemy ship's hull. Using smaller boats, the crew of Surprise tow the ship into a fog bank and evade pursuit. Aubrey learns from a crewman who saw Acheron being built that it is LESS
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