Against the Sun
Short description
Three American airmen survive the crash of their plane in the Pacific during the Second World War and end up crammed into a small life raft with no food, no drinking water and no way to call for help. As they try to reach distant land, they face storms, sharks and relentless sun, while the strain of sharing such a confined space gradually turns the men against one another. The story is drawn from a real incident that took place in January 1942.
Brian Falk directed and co-wrote the film with Mark David Keegan, with Mark Moran and Falk producing for The American Film Company. It was Falk's first feature as director, and its three-man structure rests on Tom Felton as Tony Pastula, Garret Dillahunt as Harold Dixon and Jake Abel as Gene Aldrich, with Nadia Parra in a supporting role. Around eighty crew members are credited on the production.
Against the Sun runs 99 minutes and was released in November 2014. It holds a 6.5 rating on IMDb from roughly 7,100 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 7 out of 226 votes. A critics' score of 6.5 from ten reviews places it close to the audience average, suggesting a modest but generally positive reception for this survival drama.
What's left behind the scenes
- A Douglas Devastator aircraft appears in the film. At the time of filming, there were no others left in the world, so the plane had to be built from scratch using original blueprints.
- The life raft used by downed pilots in 1942 is now part of an exhibit at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Florida.
- The film was shot in one of the towns in the Mexican state of Baja California. In 1996, 20th Century Fox acquired a stretch of coastline south of the town and constructed a giant tank there, which James Cameron used a year later while filming the drama 'Titanic'. Subsequently, many other films were shot at the same location.
- During filming, the actors playing the three main characters were put on a strict diet (500 calories a day) to make them look more convincing as pilots after a crash.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
