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'Adrift' In Time And Water, Lovers Battle To Find A Course

Adrift, starring Sam Claflin and Shailene Woodley, could have been a generic disaster film, if not for some clever editing that helps pull together its themes.
In <em>Adrift, </em>two free-spirited lovers (Sam Claflin, Shailene Woodley) take an ambitious sailing trip...that's complicated by the arrival of a hurricane.

To date, the Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has made one film about a fisherman who survived in freezing water after his boat capsized off the Ireland coast (), another about a blizzard that wiped eight climbers off the summit of Mount Everest in 1996 (), and now one more about a hurricane that pummeled a yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, leaving its sailors wounded and badly off-course. Kormákur is a disaster artist,

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