Deepwater Horizon [Blu-ray/DVD] [2 Discs]

Director: Peter Berg Peter Berg

Overview

Lone Survivor director Peter Berg helmed this docudrama about the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the 2010 oil-rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The film depicts the challenges that Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) and the rest of the rig's crew faced as they fought for survival. Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, and John Malkovich co-star.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/10/2017
UPC:	0031398257172
Original Release:	2016
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	15,932

Special Features

The Fury of the Rig; Bringing the incredible rig and explosives to life; Deepwater Surveillance - Access to the Set Up Close with Raw Footage; Work Like An American - 8 stories of real America workers; Blu-ray Exclusives; Beyond the Horizon: An Hour-Long 5-part Series; Captain of the Rig ; Key Cast members discuss Director Peter Berg's stunning vision to bring this film to the Screen

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mark Wahlberg	Mike Williams
Kurt Russell	Jimmy Harrell
John Malkovich	Vidrine
Gina Rodriguez	Andrea Fleytas
Dylan O'Brien	Caleb Holloway,ROV Supervisor
Kate Hudson	Felicia Williams
Jeremy Sande	Adam Weise
Henry Frost	Shane Rosto
Ethan Suplee	Jason Anderson
Douglas M. Griffin	Landry
James Dumont	O'Bryan
Joe Chrest	Sims
Brad Leland	Kaluza
Dave Maldonado	Kuchta,Kuchta
J.D. Evermore	Dewey A. Revette
Jason Pine	Stephen Ray Curtis
Jason Kirkpatrick	Aaron Dale Burkeen
Robert Walker Branchaud	Doug Brown
Jonathan Angel	Gordon Jones
Bill McMullen	Halliburton Rep
Stella Allen	Sydney,Old Man Carl
Peter Berg	Mr. Skip
Juston Street	Anthony Gervasio
Tony Centonze	Dan Barron/Roughneck #1
Zachary Guerra	Coast Guard Commander
Chris Ashworth	Coast Guard Officer #1
Graham McGinnis	Coast Guard Officer #2
Robert Nash	Coast Guard Officer #3
Henri Esteve	Andrea's Housemate
Elizabeth Carey	Frenchman/Schlumberger #1
Mustafa Harris	Bankston Crewman/Medic
Terry Milam	Keith Blair Manuel
Garrett Kruithof	Karl Kleppinger Jr.
Michael A. Howell	Roy Wyatt Kemp
Ronald Weaver	Donald Clark
Deneen Tyler	Paula Walker
Jim Klock	Sacred Crew Member
Garrett Hines	Wyman Wheeler
Leighton Gonzales	ROV Operator #2
Robert Steinberg	BP Rep
Trace Adkins	Massive Man
Kurt Peterson	Rescue Swimmer
Ilan Srulovicz	Outgoing DPO
Craig Shellenberger	First Mate
Trent Zimmer	DP Officer
Cedric Gervais	Frenchman/Schlumberger #2
Cierra Price	Counter Agent #1
Tawnya Carr	Bristow Advisory
Meghan Gatto	Reporter #1
Tom Yura	Reporter #2
Wesley Figaro	Coast Guard Officer #4
Jennifer Tamminen	Coast Guard Officer #5
Saundra Santiago	Worried Mother
Barry Fallon	BP Personnel
Carliene O'Connor	Coast Guard Officer #6
Anthony Ace Thomas	Paula's Husband
Fred North	Helicopter Pilot
Matthew Carnahan	Actor
Ronnie Cupstid	Subsea Engineer
David William Donze	Still Photographer
Micah LeBlanc	Incoming Sea Engineer
Sean Carter	ROV Operator
John L. Armijo	Roughneck
Patrick Arabie	Chief Mechanic
Brandt Allen	Aircraft Commander
Jeff Caperton	Rough Neck - Survivor
Nazeema Bartek	Heliport greeter
Stephen Nicoll	Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer
Tony Beard	Transocean Supervisor
Daryl Thibodaux	Photographer
Preston Brice	Roughneck #2
Bud Galloway	Lifeboat Evacuee
Randolph Perkins	Rig Worker #1
Sue-Lynn Ansari	Passengers
David Grutman	Frenchman/Schlumberger #3
John Malkovitch	Actor
Deborah Aquila	Actor
Peter Trentacosta, III	Life Boat Driver
Jenny Kubiak	Counter Agent #2
Steve Fisher	Transocean Employee
Scott Francis Campbell	BP Escort
Kenneth Billings	Crew Member
Steve Jablonsky	Composer
Mark Schotz	Cowboy
Barker Carlock	Bankston Survivor #1
Tracy Mann	Bankston Survivor #2
Richard Williams	Pilot
Derek Thorsrud	Co-Pilot #2
Nick Litchfield	Deepwater Rescue Swimmer
Robert Lovett	Deck Hand
Kelly Smith	Co-Pilot #1
Mayla Parker	Voice of Natalie
Matthew Sand	Actor

Technical Credits

Matthew Michael Carnahan

Matthew Sand

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura	Producer
Mark Vahradian	Producer
David Womark	Producer
Stephen Levinson	Producer
Matthew Michael Carnahan	Screenwriter
Matthew Sand	Screenwriter
Jeff Skoll	Executive Producer
Ryan Putz	Sound Effects
Chris Welcker	Sound Effects
Raam Brousard	Sound Effects
Peter Berg	Director
Jonathan King	Producer
Meagan Lewis	Casting
Harry Cohen	Sound/Sound Designer
Wylie Stateman	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

On April 20, 2010, the worst oil spill in U.S. history began when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded in a thunderous fireball. A surge of methane gas rushed up the well from three miles below the surface and ignited, causing the blowout. Eleven of the 126 people on the semi-submersible platform were killed, and dozens more were injured. Millions of barrels of oil flowed into the Gulf for the next 87 days. Making the disaster even more tragic was the fact that it was completely preventable. Greed, coupled with a shrugging disregard for safety, fueled the flames. The movie Deepwater Horizon begins with Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), a Transocean chief electronics technician, bidding goodbye to his wife Felicia (Kate Hudson) and daughter Sydney (Stella Allen) before heading out for a three-week stint aboard the company's Deepwater Horizon rig, which is being leased by petroleum giant BP. Joining him on the helicopter flight out to the drilling site are crew chief Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell), rig worker Andrea Fleytas (Gina Rodriguez), and a couple of BP suits who are to present the crew with a workplace safety award. When they arrive, they discover that production is 43 days behind schedule and the rig is rife with safety issues. They also learn that BP executive Donald Vidrine (John Malkovich, in typical reptilian mode) is waiting for them. The bottom-line-obsessed rep wants to get production back on schedule as quickly as possible, and he's willing to cut corners to do so -- despite severe warnings from Jimmy, who believes further testing is needed to ensure that everything below the surface is working properly (which, of course, it isn't). Pressure is building up along the seabed where the drill is inserted, and it's about to erupt. Predictably, corporate coercion wins out and all systems are go. And, also predictably, it isn't long before the entire rig is ablaze, with oil gushing everywhere, steel beams crashing down, rivets and bolts shooting through the air like bullets, and crewmembers being tossed about like so much other debris. When all hell breaks loose, which happens around the film's midway point, the picture kicks into a higher gear; director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) ratchets up the intensity and suspense to heart-thumping levels the rest of the way, as our fear that not everyone will survive this catastrophe heightens. A Deepwater Horizon replica was built 85 percent to scale in the parking lot of the derelict Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans, and that attention to detail gives the movie an immediacy and authenticity that pays off big time. In addition, the film's whizzbang editing, harrowing sound design, and seamless use of CGI work together to create an old-fashioned, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that will likely have theatergoers nervously clutching the armrests on their seats or the arm of the unfortunate person sitting next to them. The cast are also uniformly fine, with Russell's Mister Jimmy, as he's affectionately called by the crew, a standout as the voice of reason and the film's moral center. If Deepwater Horizon has a fault, it's that it doesn't deal with the aftermath of the disaster and its devastating impact on the environment, other than to provide a few onscreen facts as the film wraps up. But as a tale of real-life heroism and corporate avarice, it's a riveting piece of entertainment that will leave audiences uplifted -- and furious.