In the Heart of the Sea ( 2015)

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. But that told only half the story. “Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.

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The cast forIn the Heart of the Sea

Owen Chase

Chris Hemsworth

George Pollard

Benjamin Walker

Matthew Joy

Cillian Murphy

Old Thomas Nickerson

Brendan Gleeson

Herman Melville

Ben Whishaw

Mrs. Nickerson

Michelle Fairley

Young Thomas Nickerson

Tom Holland

Thomas Chappel

Paul Anderson

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Owen Coffin

Frank Dillane

Benjamin Lawrence

Joseph Mawle

Barzallai Ray

Edward Ashley

Ramsdell

Sam Keeley

Richard Peterson

Osy Ikhile

William Bond

Gary Beadle

Isaac Cole

Jamie Sives

Sheppard

Morgan Chetcuti

Peggy

Charlotte Riley

Pollard Senior

Nicholas Jones

Paul Macy

Donald Sumpter

Benjamin Fuller

Richard Bremmer

Spanish Captain

Jordi Mollà

Nantucket Townswoman

Hayley Joanne Bacon

Customs Officer

Andrew Crayford

Nantucket Townswoman

Claudia Newman

Nantucket Passenger

Daniel Westwood

John Sanborn

Andy Wareham

Directing

Ron Howard, Jo Beckett, Kathy Hughes

Production

Will Ward, Nina Gold, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Joe Roth, Paula Weinstein, Diego Betancor, Robert Sterne

Camera

Anthony Dod Mantle, Katie Swain, Jonathan Prime, Simon Finney, John Marzano, Alastair Rae, Peter Zuccarini

Writing

Charles Leavitt, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Nathaniel Philbrick

Sound

Roque Baños, David Walter, Paul John Chandler, Karen Elliott, Steve Little, Iain Eyre, Carsten Richter, Markus Stemler, Stefan Busch, Helene Seidl, Chris Burdon, Gilbert Lake, Frank Kruse

Editing

Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley, Steve Little, Iain Eyre, Begoña Lopez, Sophie Nguyen-Thomas, Simon Davis

Art

Mark Tildesley, Gabriela Dolenska, Neal Callow, Dean Clegg, Nick Gottschalk, James Collins, Isabel Gómez-Blanco, Meike Maher, Will Buchanan, Dominic Capon, Suzanna Smith, Christian Huband, Niall Moroney

Costume & Make-Up

Julian Day, Andrew Hunt, Kate Laver, Luca Vannella, Karen Sherriff-Brown, Laura Schiavo, Haridian Nóbrega, Laura Lilley, Elisa Fernández Martín, Kirstin Chalmers, Marilyn MacDonald, Fae Hammond

Crew

Jon Baker, Angel Airan Bonilla, Lee Garside, Ben Rothwell, Michael Wood, Kieron Helsdon, Mikaël Damant-Sirois, Richard Sutherland, Lukas Lepicovsky, Xinyi Puah, Karen Holt, Ben Wilkinson

Lighting

Thomas Neivelt, David Sinfield, Brandon Evans, Aaron Keating, Tom O'Sullivan

Visual Effects

Robyn Luckham, Pimentel A. Raphael, Eric Petey, Bryan Hirota, Anna Guseva, Dave Kim, Valdone Koronczi, Donna Smith, Eunice Khoo, Nancy Lamontagne, Chan Ee Jien, Sam Girdler, Crisanta Melendez, Leslie Lerman, Oliver Money, Marie-Cecile Dahan, Dane Allan Smith, Charlotte Loughnane, Steve Griffith, Sean Stranks, François Dumoulin, Jody Johnson, Vincent Cirelli, Mark Holt, Mike Kelt