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Synopsis: The true story of the price a young soldier paid for falling in love with a transsexual night-club performer.
Director(s): Frank Pierson
Production: Bachrach/Gottlieb Productions
  Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 3 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
2003
112 min
Website
339 Views


he finds her, the Atocha,

the mother lode of all treasure ships.

It's worth 400 million dollars so far.

And today,

Mel Fisher is counting the riches

still out there on the ocean floor.

So right over here about

a quarter of a mile

is all the kings taxes for five years,

all the church collection money from

all the Catholic churches

in this hemisphere for five years,

all the wealthy merchants,

there was 28 of them on board

all their lifesavings for 10

or 15 years in business over here.

They were gonna go home and retire.

They didn't make it.

So there's probably another four

and a half billion right over there.

Today, aging and ailing,

Mel Fisher is still bringing up treasure.

These days, it is emeralds.

His passion for treasure

has been passed on

to his youngest son, Kane Fisher.

Is there more come from their cursor

and they want our men for this

When we found that... ah... we found that

court martial referee

in our linds send the leve

I got one...

Here me go. that ahold a half carat

that about 3000.a carat 6000

You got to be real persistent

and not give up, no matter what.

And you got to believe it's there.

And you got to want it bad.

If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.

You just got to keep looking

and don't stop no matter what.

I dream about gold

and emeralds every night.

And you'll never know what's

five feet away from where you left off.

That's what keeps it exciting.

The Atocha puzzle still isn't solved.

I don't know

when we're gonna figure it out.

And you just keep going and going.

It seems like you

never get done working a shipwreck.

We've been working those wrecks

for 34 years now

and still finding stuff.

It's exciting.

That's what keeps you going.

Today, Mel Fisher is big business,

and almost respectable.

But a swashbuckler makes enemies,

big enemies.

Charging that Fisher has

seriously damaged the seafloor

with his salvaging techniques,

the federal government has dragged him

through the courts.

And Fisher's had to pay hundreds

of thousands in fines.

But Fisher knows how to change

with the times.

Conservator Sid Jones,

who worked extensively

with Fisher on the Atocha,

acknowledges the need to protect history.

In the past treasure hunting,

back in the '60s or the '50s

when it was really getting started,

there wasn't much

thought given to recording data

or preserving the artifacts.

Of course, there was a large emphasis

on finding something of value,

but we've learned in time

that every artifact that comes

from these ships has value.

Once you understand the complete picture,

the items not only have a monetary value,

but they have a historical value as well,

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Ron Nyswaner

Ron Nyswaner was born on October 5, 1956 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Philadelphia (1993), The Painted Veil (2006) and Why Stop Now? (2012). more…

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