Lesson one: Don’t mess with the ocean

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The Perfect Storm’ (2000)

The forecast
The title says it all. When George Clooney, Marky Mark and their robust gang of woolly-sweatered, blue-collar guys’ guys come home from the sea with a disappointing haul, they know they’ll be forced to make one… last… trip before the season ends. Never mind that there’s an almighty shitkicker of a squall brewing up: it’s a man’s responsibility to put fish on the table.

What we learn
If the Weather Channel warns that it’s getting blustery, even the world’s sexiest man shouldn’t persuade you into a sea voyage. The Atlantic ocean is, as the film’s characters repeatedly remind us, ‘a bitch’, and she shouldn’t be messed with when she’s in a feisty mood.

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