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Actors: Julianna Marguiles, Gabriel Byrne
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ghost Ship
A group of salvagers are confronted by a man who has found a boat in the Bering Strait. They go to check it out and discover that the boat is the Antonia Graza which dissapppeared 40 years ago. While looking through the ship they find 200 million dollars in gold, but they soon discover that someone doesn't want them to leave the ship. They soon start to uncover the secret of the ship and to try to survive its horrors.
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%



Time/Era of Movie: - present (2000-2010)
Horror film? Yes
Horror Plotlets: - haunted house or boat

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - civilian sailor
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - medium/shoulderlgn, wavy (woman)
Body type - skinny (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - white/grey
Hair style - (man) short/standard wavy
Body type - average build (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Age: - long-lived adults
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - can change shapes - telekinesis - super strength
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 90%-100%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Asia/Pacific Yes
Asian country: - Russia
Water? Yes
Water: - sail boat - lost at sea

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel... - excited
How many deaths in film? - hundreds
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - kissing - seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets? - 2 ()
Kind of violence: - mental battles - hand to hand - guns - knives
Unusual forms of death - poisoning - diced - flamed - drowned - impaled - decapitated - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity? - Some foul language
Lot of special effects? Yes
Kinds of F/X - exploding bombs - nasty human transformations
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