Titanic (1997)

Release date: 1997-12-14
Country: USA
Language: English|Swedish|Italian
Director: James Cameron
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox,Paramount Pictures,Lightstorm Entertainment
Genre: Romance, Drama
Rating: 7.8/10
Length: 3h 14min

Storyline

84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

Plot Keywords

iceberg, self sacrifice, one word title, ship, shipwreck, sinking ship, told in flashback, mass death, topless, love at first sight, sos, sunken ship, race against time, necklace, drowning, lifeboat, survivor, historical event, main character dies, cigarette smoking

Short Review

For all the sluggish script and the enormous weight of the special effects, this movie behemoth still has the power to shake us rigid and and touch the soul.