Stars: Bob Hoskins, Sadie Frost, Peter McDonald, Maureen Lipman, Gemma Jones, Anna Massey, David Troughton, Anna Massey

Director: Robert Young

Summary: Bob Hoskins stars in this charming high seas adventure as Captain Jack, a tough, aging seaman whose travels are now restricted to ferrying tourists around Whitby Bay. Fed up with his now staid life, Jack to decides to retrace the steps of his hero, Captain Scorseby, who sailed from England to Jan Mayen Island in the Arctic in 1791. Assembling a rag tag crew with absolutely no experience, Captain Jack sets out on a potentially dangerous 1,300 mile voyage, sponsored by a fish & chip house, to place a plaque commemorating Scoresby's voyage on the island. Along the way, the crew get to know each other and the irascible Captain Jack, fend off polar bears, and evade NATO as they try to revive the spirit of a long dead adventurer.

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Drawing from Andrei Tarkovsky's heady science fiction meditation Solarisby way of Alienand Hellraiser, this visually splendid but pulpy piece of science fiction schlock concerns a mission in the year 2047 to investigate the experimental American spaceship Event Horizon, which disappeared seven years previously and suddenly, out of nowhere, reappeared in the orbit of Neptune. Laurence Fishburne stars as mission commander Captain Miller and Sam Neill is Dr Weir, the scientist who designed the mystery ship. Miller's T-shirt-and army-green-clad crew of smart-talking pros finds a ship dead and deserted, but further investigations turn up blood, corpses, dismembered body parts, and a decidedly unearthly presence. It turns out that the ship is really a space-age haunted house where spooky (and obviously impossible) visions lure each of the crew members into situations they should know better than to enter. The ship is gorgeously designed, borrowing from the dark, organic look of Alienand adding the menacing touch of teeth sprouting from bulwark doors and clawlike spikes inexplicably shooting out of the engine room floor. Unfortunately the film is not nearly as inventive as the production design--it turns into a woefully inconsistent psychic monster movie that sacrifices mood for tepid shocks--but the special effects are topnotch, and ultimately the movie has a trashy B movie charm about it. --Sean Axmaker

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1998
Release Date:	February 11, 2002
Runtime:	96 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C C D 8710
Keywords:	Captain, Family, Jack, Wide, Screen
Genre:	Family