If already continuously drives the screenplay by Charles Leavitt jokes, do not want to disregard are Ron Howard directing.

It is not so that the public of the cannibalistic incidents could know nothing; at Chase as well as in a 1831 published short report of the captain they were mentioned. 

  

Why you did not speak on Nantucket about sets of author Nathaniel Philbrick in "In the Heart of the Sea" is, its detailed reappraisal of the events: because the black crewmen had been eaten first, which ran counter to the abolitionist self-image of the islanders.

The film takes over from Phil Bricks excellent book, although the title, allowed himself but otherwise all possible deviations from historical and zoological facts. In the center he represents as informant those Thomas Nickerson, who had started its journey as a fourteen year old cabin boy (Tom Holland) - and its long-lost ErlebnisberichtPhilbrick only in 2000 was fully publish. We meet him at the very beginning as a senior master (BrendanGleeson), who in his guest house in Nantucket no other 1850 story as Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) - of course, the first time in 1852, barely a year after the publication of "Moby-Dick" , had entered the island. , ,