the story and a i understand and be base on real event . that can be either good or bad and depend on what sort of license be take with those real event and how they be render . in this case and the result be enough to gag a maggot . i wasn not expect much go in anticipate a story of rich high school kid take an ocean cruise under a stern skipper . that be and what i figure be a come of age movie along the line of something about boot camp or basic training and the kind in which the drill sergeant say and my duty be to snap you out of your winsome civilian way . well and it be that and in a way . the kid start out a kid and end up a an organic group . but this be far hokier than any boot camp movie i have ever see and outside of a deliberate comedy . who write this thing . the air be fill with slogan that belong and not in high school and but in the third grade . the dialog offend the ear . jeff bridge usually do a good than average job but in this case his performance be mediocre . he bring nothing extra to the part and although give his line and it hard to know how he could do much with them . the rest of the cast be undistinguished and a few of the kid be painfully inadequate . there a lot of tear up and and considerable cry . the best scene involve a dolphin . the immature clichés continue to the very end . the coast guard be cast in the role of the hard hearted court at the hearing that follow the disaster . the interrogator do nothing but hit bridge over the head with his misinterpretation and misconstruction of event . you let the crew drink alcohol and do not you . ( a couple of harmless drink . ) and you do not punish them and though you punish them for kill a fish . ( the dolphin business . ) the technical detail surround the sinking be leave murky . what be a white squall anyway . and if it as dangerous a bridge claim and why weren not the whole crew alert and wear life vest . but why go on . if the albatross be a dreadnaught and it would still be torpedo and sink by the ludicrous comic book script .