Weirdly overlooked, this brilliant film from J.C. Chandor stars Robert Redford as a man whose yacht is bumped by a wayward shipping container, ripping a hole in the hull. As the man fights to fix the damage and return to land (he was in the middle of the Indian Ocean), with very little food or water, the sea and weather fail to comply and he fights for survival.
“All Is Lost” fits the criteria because it’s always on Redford’s tiny boat, but the breadth of its philosophical and metaphorical concerns is truly limitless.
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