Adrift (2018)

We flash backwards and forwards between Tami Oldham's life before and after a significant life event, revealed eventually as a period of 42 days adrift at sea following a storm that destroys her boat and injures her crewmate, Richard Sharp, but on either side of that narrative pivot point the focus of this true account is Tami's relationship with Richard - not the disaster - so, with the exception of the big disaster "reveal", the movie amounts to scenes of cream being applied to sunburn, rations of peanut butter being relished, and poor Tami rolling her eyes deliriously about in her head.

★★☆☆☆

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The Descendants (2011)

This gentle family drama, not at all cloying or sentimental, has George Clooney playing a husband who finds himself rethinking his marriage and his responsibilities as a father and Hawaiian land title holder, during the final days of his wife's life after she is in a boating accident.

★★★☆☆

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