The Mercy

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

Cast

Colin Firth

as Donald Crowhurst

Rachel Weisz

as Clare Crowhurst

David Thewlis

as Rodney Hallworth

Mark Gatiss

as Ronald Hall

Genevieve Gaunt

as 'Miss Teignmouth'

Jonathan Bailey

as Ian Wheeler

Andrew Buchan

as Ian Milburn

Simon McBurney

as Sir Francis Chichester

Eleanor Stagg

as Rachel Crowhurst

Ken Stott

as Stanley Best

Reviews

Peter McGinn

I like Colin First enough to cut his films some slack sometimes, and this is one of those times. I thought the movie was entertaining overall, and well acted. At the same time I had a couple of problems with it. One was that I found the family flashbacks while he was at sea to be distracting. It was...

CinemaSerf

Based on the true story of aspiring round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth) this rather disappointingly sluggish drama tries to engage us in the man's lifelong passion. A passion that jeopardises his business, puts him into debt and relegates his wife and two young children to secon...

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