Adrift

"Adrift," the film adaptation directed by Baltasar Kormákur, wears its heart on its sleeve. It's not just a story of an incredible feat of survival. It's also a love story, presented with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

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Adrift’s bifurcated narrative structure also provides a friction that keeps the couple’s romance from becoming too sickly sweet

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Star of this true-life disaster movie adds humanity to hell-and-high-water tale of being marooned in the Pacific for a month

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Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin are dull lovers lost at sea in the otherwise gripping Adrift

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As a free spirit who falls for a dreamboat sailor and winds up lost at sea, Shailene Woodley anchors a romantic spin on the shipwrecked-loner film.

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They never quite got the script right, but director Kormakur toggles well enough. And Woodley sees it through.

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Shailene Woodley dives deep to play a sea-stranded hurricane survivor in the new thriller from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur.

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Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin play lovers lost at sea in Baltasar Kormakur's survival tale.

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A California woman’s true “All Is Lost”-like tale becomes a mixed-bag movie of romance and stranded peril in the Pacific

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The chronological back-and-forth diffuses the dread and suspense — the feeling of desperate uncertainty implied by the title — that might have made for a more intense, more memorable yarn.

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The movie seems to stray from Oldham’s book, Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea, concerning the fate of Richard Sharp.

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After being caught in a hurricane, sailor Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) wakes to find her yacht damaged, her partner injured and little hope of rescue. Can she get them home?

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