Underplayed Gems

All Is Lost (2013)

All Is Lost poster
Directed by
J. C. Chandor
Genre
drama film, action film, survival film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 1,771 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man sailing alone in the Indian Ocean wakes to find his yacht has been breached. He must survive against the elements with very few resources and no one to help him.

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What happens

All Is Lost is a 2013 survival drama film written and directed by J. C. Chandor. The film stars Robert Redford as a man lost at sea. Redford is the only cast member, and the film has only 51 spoken English words. All Is Lost is Chandor's second feature film, following his 2011 debut Margin Call. It screened Out of Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The title of the film is a nod to E. W. Hornung's observation that when courage is lost, "all is lost". Among many honors, the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound Editing (Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns) and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (Alex Ebert). Redford was nominated for his own Golden Globe and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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