The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

3.71
    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    2004

    Synopsis

    Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

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    Cast

    • Bill MurraySteve Zissou
    • Owen WilsonNed Plimpton
    • Cate BlanchettJane Winslett-Richardson
    • Anjelica HustonEleanor Zissou
    • Willem DafoeKlaus Daimler
    • Jeff GoldblumAlistair Hennessey
    • Michael GambonOseary Drakoulias
    • Noah TaylorVladimir Wolodarsky
    • Bud CortBill Ubell
    • Seu JorgePelé dos Santos

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      The director of "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums" scores his most funny-sad movie to date.
    • 90

      Los Angeles Times

      An exquisitely evocative movie that elevates rueful melancholia to a superpower.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Wonderfully weird and wistful adventure-comedy about a fish-out-of-water oceanographer.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      The actor's (Murray) quiet, downcast presence modulates the antic busyness that encircles him, and his performance is a triumph of comic minimalism.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      As someone who has warmed up to Anderson's work only gradually, I'd call this a step back for him, but I also can't help but wonder: Will he ever take that crucial step forward and stop saying, Isn't it ironic?
    • 60

      Village Voice

      Murray is always pleasurable company, and his barely suppressed soulfulness might've supported this dawdling big-fish story if its insistent larkiness had abated and let a little reality in, as had "Rushmore."
    • 60

      L.A. Weekly

      Somewhere buried beneath all this ballast something is being said, again, about flawed middle-aged men falling from grace and redeeming themselves. This time I'm damned if I know what that something is.
    • 50

      Variety

      The effect is often soporific.

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