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The Mercy
Adventure, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically intimate survival stories about ambition, mounting isolation, and the painful cost of pursuing an impossible dream.
- Tone
- tense, melancholic, bleak
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, isolation, deception, family responsibility, endurance
- Setting
- late 1960s, open ocean and coastal England
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