Not the last time Billy Zane would torment a redhead on a boat.

They didn’t have to show us the toddler going slow motion through the window in the first five minutes, but they did. The dog is just a work of art.

Yeah therapy is cool but have you ever taken a sailing trip across the Pacific to heal the horror of watching your toddler propelled out of your car's windshield and spread across the pavement like butter?

I hate the water and I hate boats, so this is basically my nightmare. Seriously though none of this needed to happen. Everyone made terrible and stupid decisions.

-Billy Zane has some beautiful man brows and lashes like wow!

-Hello sailor daddy Sam Neil

-Lil Danny caught some major air

-Ima pretend she didn't do that to poor Ben

-Flares make your teeth look whiter

Any movie that starts with a baby going through a windshield and ends with someone’s face getting SPOILER ALERTED by a flare gun can’t be all bad.

My dad texted me yesterday:

“I just watched ‘Dead Calm’
Kidman Neal.
Most incredible ending I've ever seen.”

Anyway glad I listened to my dad he was right

you’ve heard of chekhov’s gun, now get ready for chekhov’s FLARE GUN, chekhov’s HARPOON, and, my personal favorite, chekhov’s LORAZEPAM

not enough dialogue about how perfect nicole kidman’s facial structure is

SLAM EVIL

A very formative movie for young Adam; probably the first time that I ever saw Nicole Kidman, and definitely the first time I saw a child die onscreen - the opening sequence is nothing if not an effective PSA about the importance of wearing one’s seat belt. The myriad trashy compromises here are the best part, including and especially the coda, which proves that sometimes, executives know what they’re talking about - in the annals of punishment-fits-the-crime-payoffs, Zane’s fate ranks high. Neill parlayed his impressively physical performance here into Hollywood action roles, and good for him.

in the least braggy way possible i met nicole kidman yesterday and she said that this was the movie she’s the most proud of. i liked it a lot + the plot was vv cool. eyes wide shut will still forever be my fav of her movies but this is still great, also soo crazy that she was only 19 while filming this (??)