Studio Canal
 
 
THE MERCY
 
Running Time: 1hr 41 mins
Classification: 12A
 
Genre: Biography / Drama
Director: James Marsh
Screenplay: Scott Z. Burns
Cast:
Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Daivd Thewlis

Synopsis:

Following his Academy Award® winning film The Theory of Everything, James Marsh directs the incredible true story of Donald Crowhurst (COLIN FIRTH, The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Railway Man), an amateur sailor who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becomingthe first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe withoutstopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare (RACHEL WEISZ, The Light Between Oceans, The Lobster) and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron. Co-starring DAVID THEWLIS (Anomalisa, The Theory of Everything) and KEN STOTT (‘War & Peace’, The Hobbit), and produced by Blueprint Pictures (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, In Bruges), the story of Crowhurst's dangerous solo voyage and the struggles he confronted on the epic journey while his family awaited his return is oneof the most enduring mysteries of recent times.