Calme white ( Dead Calm ) is an américano-Australian film carried out by Phillip Noyce, left in 1989.

Synopsis

Data sheet

• Title: Calm white
• original Title: Dead Calm
• Realization: Phillip Noyce
• Scenario: Terry Beam, according to the novel of Charles Williams
• Production: Terry Beam, George Miller and Doug Mitchell
• Production companies: Warner Bros. Pictures and Kennedy Miller Productions
• Music: Graeme Revell
• Photography: Dean Semler
• Assembly: Richard Francis-Bruce
• Decorations: Graham “Grace” Walker
• Costumes: Normalized Moriceau
• Country of origin: Australia, the United States
• Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - Dolby Surround - 35 mm
• Kind: Horror, thriller
• Lasted: 96 minutes
• Comings out date: April 7th 1989 (the United States), May 25th 1989 (Australia), August 23rd 1989 (France)

Distribution

• Nicole Kidman: Rae Ingram
• Sam Neill: John Ingram
• Billy Zane: Hughie Warriner
• Rod Mullinar : Russell Bellows
• Joshua Tilden : Danny
• George Shevtsov: a doctor
• Michael Length: a doctor

Around film

• turning was held with Gold Coast, the Grande barrier of coral, Hamilton Island and Sydney.
• the novel of Charles Williams had already been adapted by Orson Welles with The Deep (1970).
• Sam Neill met his wife, the make-up girl Noriko Watanabe, on the turning of film.
• Calm white mark beginnings of the type-setter Graeme Revell, rewarded since by the price for the best film music at the time of the Mostra of Venice in 1997 for Chinese Box .

Original soundtrack

• Who Stole The Isopropyl Alcohol , interpreted by Tim O' Connor
• NOMAD , interpreted by Tim O' Connor
• New York Turnpike , interpreted by Tim O' Connor
• The Lion Sleeps Tonight , interpreted by The Tokens
• Wired For Sound , interpreted by SPK

Distinctions

Rewards

• Better music, better photography, better assembly and better sound (Ben Osmo, Lee Smith and Roger Savage), at the time of the Australian Film Institute Awards in 1989.
• Better assembly its for a foreign film, by the Motion Picture Sound Editors in 1990.

Nominations

• Better film, better realizer, better scenario adapted and better decorations, at the time of Australian Film Institute Awards in 1989.
• Better actress for Nicole Kidman, by the Academy of horror and science fiction films, fantastic in 1991.

External bonds

• Calm white on Internet Movie Database
• Critical DevilDead