Titanic

"Nothing on earth could come between them."

1997 3h 14m EN

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7.9

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88%

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★7.9TMDB · 27,866🍅88%Rotten Tomatoes●75Metacritic★8IMDB · 1,389,357

DramaRomance

Synopsis

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101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

“Nothing on earth could come between them.”

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Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio
Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet
Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane
Cal Hockley
Kathy Bates
Molly Brown
Frances Fisher
Ruth DeWitt Bukater
Gloria Stuart
Old Rose
Bill Paxton
Brock Lovett
Bernard Hill
Captain Smith

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: James Cameron
Writers: James Cameron, Rick Newsome
Languages: English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Russian
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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At 194 minutes, this is a three-hour-plus commitment — longer than 95% of films ever made.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Budget of $200M — blockbuster tier. Only ~1% of films ever made reach this.

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3 / 8

MONEY

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Grossed $2264M — a 11.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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4 / 8

ERA

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29 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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5 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 6 languages: English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Russian.

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6 / 8

CAST

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386+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by James Cameron, shot by Russell Carpenter. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by James Horner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

James Cameron directs. Russell Carpenter behind the camera. James Horner scores. Conrad Buff IV cuts. A long sit — settle in. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1At 194 minutes, this is a three-hour-plus commitment — longer than 95% of films ever made.
2Budget of $200M — blockbuster tier. Only ~1% of films ever made reach this.
3Grossed $2264M — a 11.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
429 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
5Dialogue crosses 6 languages: English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Russian.
6386+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by James Cameron, shot by Russell Carpenter. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by James Horner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Conrad Buff IV shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and Billy Zane carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Nothing on earth could come between them.".
12IMDB entry: tt0120338 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1327,866 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 22 themes, including "ship", "soulmates", "shipwreck", "atlantic ocean".
15Released under 15 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Russell Carpenter
Original score: James Horner
Editing: Conrad Buff IV
Production design: Peter Lamont
Costume design: Deborah L. Scott
Makeup / hair: Polly Earnshaw
VFX supervisor: Craig Barron
Sound: Tom Johnson
Stunt coordinator: Simon Crane
Runtime: 194 min · 3h 14m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $200,000,000
Box office: $2,264,162,353
Return: 1132% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Titanic (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes: 88% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 75/100
IMDB rating: 8/10 · 1,389,357 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Won 11 Oscars. 126 wins & 84 nominations total

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Academy Award for Best Sound
Golden Globe Award for Best Director
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film
MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Song
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography
Satellite Award for Best Film

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John Chard2014-09-25
★ 9/10
Beautiful Romance - Tragedy Unbound. It has kind of become the popular thing to kick Titanic, the film and its achievements. It's like the love it garnered on release and the colossal waves it made in the history of cinema, never happened, or as some want you to believe, doesn't matter. I can tell you now that many of my macho fuelled friends will privately, under the influence of liquid refreshments, admit to having affection for the film, but socially in a circle environment? Not a bit of it! I have no such problems admitting my love for the film, I love it as much now as I approach 50, as I did when I sat there in awe at the cinema in 1997. You jump - I jump. Titanic is far from flawless, where even now with the advancements in technology the effects over 15 years later look a touch creaky. While it's true as well that away from Rose and Jack the characterisations are thin on the ground. But this is Rose and Jack's story, fully fleshed out for an hour and half and then framed by the terrible tragedy that unfolds for the next hour and half. The tie-in to the present day is superbly constructed by James Cameron - the search for the diamond - the real life filming of the Titanic wreckage - and the flashback telling of the story by a delightful Gloria Stuart as old Rose, and the sinking of the ship and its aftermath is stunning and heart breaking in equal measure. Never let go. So may scenes and dialogue exchanges stay in the memory for ever. The band playing on, the captain awaiting his fate, the mother ushering her children to sleep before the sea comes to take them, the old boy drinking his brandy as the water rushes in, or just Jack and Rose, polar opposites in society's class structure, making love, making art or just professing that neither will ever let go. It's what makes Titanic the wonderful piece of cinema it is, where beauty and tragedy merge to create something forever memorable. A film that deserved all the accolades and cash till ringing that it once did have. 9/10
CinemaSerf2022-06-08
★ 7/10
Set around the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS "Titanic", this is essentially a film in two parts. The first, weaker, element features a young "Dawson" (Leonardo DiCaprio) who wins a third class ticket to New York on the soon to depart liner. Meantime, the wealthy but unhappy "Rose" (Kate Winslet) is up in the posh cabins with her cold and unfeeling fiancée "Hockley" (Billy Zane) and her equally unpleasant, venally ambitious mother "Ruth" (Frances Fisher). Desperately unhappy, "Rose" considers jumping off the prow of the boat, but luckily the charming young "Dawson" is on hand to talk her down, and so begins their friendship that causes much chagrin amongst her socially elite companions. That friendship culminates in him making a rather provocative drawing of her, the final straw for her boyfriend and his enforcer "Lovejoy" (David Warner). It all looks ominous for both until - part two begins. The ship, speeding along nicely under the command of Bernard Hill's Captain Smith clips the underwater part of an iceberg and now history takes over. James Cameron offers us a purely speculative account of what might have happened as the initially incredulous crew start to realise that maybe it is not just Molly Brown (an excellent Kathy Bates) that's unsinkable! What now ensues are a series of well staged scenarios depicting panic, fear, a fair degree of selfishness and some proper stiff upper lips as the ship has be evacuated and the segregation of the passengers and competencies of the crew start to become life threatening. The visual effects have dated, the smoke from the ship's funnels blows in an strangely symmetrical fashion and the later scenes struggle to convince - but this is really a rather tragic love story with a strong chemistry between the engaging two characters at the top of the bill, and an effective performance from the older "Rose" (Gloria Stewart) who takes on the role of narrator 80 years after the disaster. I still find it uncomfortable to watch the actuality of the wreck, which features occasionally throughout the film - I feel like I am quite literally walking through someone's grave; but it does lend a potent hook upon which this lengthy, but well thought out and constructed drama is presented. Criticisms have been made of it's factual inaccuracies, and it may well play a bit fast and loose with some of the real characterisations - but it's a drama, and to be enjoyed has to be appreciated in that sphere. Big screen is a must, it really does lose a great deal on a television.
Antoine532023-01-17
Awesome