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The Time-Spanning High Seas Epic
Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons (Reversal Of Fortune) stars in this sweeping adaptation of Dava Sobel's best-selling book which tells a time spanning parallel story of high seas adventure and political intrigue in the race to discover the life-or-death secret of Longitude.Determined to stop shipping losses on the oceans of the 18th century, Britain's Parliament offers an unprecedented cast award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitude at sea.Convinced he can solve the problem that has defeated England's best minds, rural clock maker John Harrison (Michael Gambon) begins an obsessive, 40-year struggle to claim the Longitude prize with his ingenious marine clock.Two hundred years in the future, naval officer Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons) stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chronometers.A veteran of the Great War, Gould sets out to bring some measure of order to his own shell-shocked life by devoting himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical mas | | |
