The Perfect Storm Page #5

Synopsis: In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure.
Director(s): Wolfgang Petersen
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 25 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
59
PG-13
Year:
2000
130 min
3,824 Views


Yeah, baby.

Set.

Okay, Sully, put it out.

Highflyer!

Hey, A.P.

May the force be with us.

You want to play with lightsticks,

stick them up your ass.

Easy, Murph.

He's dead weight.

He's been screwing around all night.

A juicer and a head.

Cape Ann, bottom shelf.

Yeah, well, your wife

didn't feel that way.

Hey, knock it off!

I'll head for land and the Newfies

will throw you both in jail!

All right, cap.

Give us some lights.

Come on. Jesus.

Shake, you guys.

Shake!

-Just let it go.

-Your day is coming.

Whenever you're ready.

I'll be right up here.

The job ain't hard enough

without this knucklehead.

Let's go.

We're gonna make some money.

Let's go, boys!

Let's go! Come on!

Come on.

Do it, skip, do it.

Make a killing.

One's on.

Fish on.

Have those gaffs ready.

Don't lose him, Murph.

Don't lose him.

Pull him in, Murph.

All right, now, gaff him. Gaff him!

One, two, three!

Pull him in.

Come on, a little bit more.

So what do you think?

Do you think he'll like it?

He'll love it.

Enough to live with me in it?

By now, honey, you know him

much better than I do.

We're gonna make a go of it.

I got confidence in you.

What, are you putting me on?

He's my precious boy.

And you're the woman for him.

That's something I don't joke about.

The activity down near Bermuda

is deepening rapidly.

Given the warm and volatile

Gulf Stream...

...it won't take much to turn

this tropical storm into a hurricane.

This just in, video of Sable Island.

I put so much ground beef and sausage

in this, it weighed out at 20 pounds.

More than most of our fish weigh.

Skipper say anything about us

coming up short?

He's too scared to say.

Skipper don't get scared.

Just disappointed.

You know why this lasagna weighs

It tasted like you

threw in a shot put.

I once worked a site

with a guy like you.

The guy had a real bad accident.

Can't even keep track of them

with so many accidents at sea.

Tough to get an ambulance too.

Keep it up.

Highflyer!

A.P., give me a hand.

Hey, how about a little hand

over here?

You do your job, I'll do mine.

Come on, guys.

Came out here for nothing.

Keep moving, keep moving.

Come on, Sully, let's get

some bait going here.

It's big.

-Something very big.

-Fish on!

Come on, guys.

Oh, yeah.

Come on. Bring it up.

Bring it up.

Get the gaff!

Get it out of here!

Stick him.

Stick it in his head! Good!

Get him off!

-He's got my leg!

-Hang on!

Kick your foot out! Kick it!

Kick your foot out.

Get back!

All right, come on, get it out!

Get it out of here.

-Pull him back!

-Over the side.

You all right?

You're short a boot, rookie!

Beats a leg, don't it?

Okay, we're getting a reading of winds

Rate this script:2.0 / 1 vote

William D. Wittliff

William D. Wittliff (born January 1940), sometimes credited as Bill Wittliff, is an American screenwriter, author and photographer who wrote the screenplays for The Perfect Storm (2000), Barbarosa (1982), Raggedy Man (1981), and many others. more…

All William D. Wittliff scripts | William D. Wittliff Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "The Perfect Storm" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 16 May 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/the_perfect_storm_15764>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Perfect Storm

    Soundtrack

    »

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.