Bruce Greenwood plays JFK, TIS. By the way TIS, have you ever seen this?
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The Poseidon Adventure - (Neame;1972;USA) - **1/2
A tidal wave turns a ship upside down, and several people attempt to get to the top (bottom of ship) to reach safety.
What an adventure it is, with a very good score by John Williams by the way. Gene Hackman does a great job as the preacher with unorthodox ways. The special effects are pretty good for it's time, and it stays away from the average addition of a heavy romance theme that is common in disaster movies. There is a romance between two characters that forms, but it doesn't go off the tracks to explore the irrelevant area such as movies like "Titanic" have. It's a good movie, not great. Good, just a little above average with a great supporting cast that includes Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Stella Stevens, Carol Lynley, and Jack Albertson. One major problem with the movie is the fact that a tidal wave caused by an earthquake would be a few inches high in the middle of the ocean, which pretty much makes a large plot hole.