Title: Titanic
Original Title: Titanic
Year: 1997
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 194 Minutes (3 hours 14 min)
- Budget: $200,000,000
- Genre: Drama Romance
- Studios: 20th Century Studios Paramount Pictures
- Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
- Age rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: January 23 1998
- United States: December 19 1997
Plot
When a search for a precious necklace amongst the wreckage of the Titanic leads to the team instead uncovering a sketch of a young woman wearing it, a news story leads to them tracking down the elderly lady who claims to have been wearing the piece of jewelry when the ship sunk in 1912.
In the year 1912, Wisconsin-born Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) wins a third-class ticket aboard the Titanic in a card game and departs for the States. Onboard the ship, he meets the young and middle-class Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), who is also USA-bound with her temperamental and wealthy fiancé, Caledon Hockley (Billy Zane), and her mother, Ruth (Frances Fisher). Rose feels suffocated by her life and relationship, going so far as to contemplate suicide before Jack talks her down. The two strike an unlikely friendship that quickly blooms into a passionate affair. Rose feels a sense of true freedom for the first time in her life as she contemplates leaving the ship with Jack instead of Cal when they dock. However, when the ship hits an iceberg and Rose realizes that the number of lifeboats onboard is nowhere near enough to carry all of the passengers to safety, their love story turns into a fight for survival as the Titanic begins to sink below the icy waters.
'Titanic', directed by James Cameron, won 11 Academy Awards and a reputation as one of cinema's most iconic love stories.
Awards
- 1998 Academy Awards (Oscars): 16 13
Cast
Director:
Jack Dawson
Caledon 'Cal' Hockley
Rose DeWitt Bukater
Molly Brown
Ruth Dewitt Bukater
Rose mayor
Brock Lovett
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Trivia
The couple that truly existed
The elderly couple seen hugging on the bed while water floods their room was Rosalie Ida Straus and Isidor Straus, the owners of Macy's department store in New York, who both died on the Titanic. Ida was offered a seat on a lifeboat but refused so that she could stay with her husband, saying, "As we have lived together, so we shall die together." A filmed scene depicted this moment but was cut from the final version. Mrs. Straus initially said, "Where you go, I go" that inspired Rose's same line in the film.
A single song that resumes the score
James Cameron didn't want to include any songs in the film. Still, composer James Horner secretly teamed up with Will Jennings and Céline Dion to make 'My Heart Will Go On', which captivated Cameron that it ended up in the film's credits and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
37 accurate seconds
The collision with the iceberg reportedly lasted 37 seconds, which is how long the collision scene is in the movie.
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