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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World( 2003)

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The courage to do the impossible lies in the hearts of men.

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After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

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Russell Crowe
Captain Jack Aubrey
Paul Bettany
Dr. Stephen Maturin
James D'Arcy
1st Lt. Thomas Pullings
Robert Pugh
Mr. Allen, Master
David Threlfall
Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Lee Ingleby
Midshipman Hollom
Max Pirkis
Midshipman Blakeney
Max Benitz
Midshipman Calamy
Billy Boyd
Barrent Bonden, Coxswain
Edward Woodall
2nd Lt. William Mowett
Chris Larkin
Captain Howard, Royal Marines
George Innes
Joe Plaice, Able Seaman
Richard McCabe
Mr. Higgins, Surgeon's Mate
Mark Lewis Jones
Mr. Hogg, Whaler
Jack Randall
Midshipman Boyle
Richard Pates
Midshipman Williamson
Ian Mercer
Mr. Hollar, Boatswain
Tony Dolan
Mr. Lamb, Carpenter
Bryan Dick
Joseph Nagle, Carpenter's Mate
Joseph Morgan
William Warley, Cpt. of Mizzentop
William Mannering
Faster Doudle, Able Seaman
Patrick Gallagher
Awkward Davies, Able Seaman
Alex Palmer
Nehemiah Slade, Able Seaman
John DeSantis
Padeen, Loblolly Boy
Ousmane Thiam
Black Bill, Killick's Mate
Thierry Segall
French Captain

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Sun Jan 20 2019

For England, for home, and for the prize! Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is directed by Peter Weir, it stars Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. It is spliced from various novels in the Aubrey–Maturin series written by Patrick O'Brian. The film takes place during 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars and finds Captain Jack Aubrey and the crew of British frigate HMS Surprise ordered to intercept, destroy or take as a prize the French privateer Acheron. But the Acheron (The Phantom as the crew of the Surprise call her) is no ordinary ship, and her Ca...