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Wind

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Original title

Wind

Year

1992

Running time

123 min.

Country

United States

Director

Carroll Ballard

Screenwriter

Rudy Wurlitzer, Mac Gudgeon. Plot: Jeff Benjamin, Roger Vaughan, Kimball Livingston

Cast

Music

Basil Poledouris

Cinematography

John Toll

Producer

Mataichiro Yamamoto

Genre

Drama | Sports. Sailing

Synopsis

Matthew Modine and Jennifer Grey star as experienced sailors determined to win the prestigious America's Cup yacht race. Their love for each other is put to the test when she's removed from the crew and joins up with a maverick designer (Stellan Skarsgård) whose new boat design represents the cutting edge of sailing competition. Eventually Modine leaves his millionaire sponsor (Cliff Robertson) and reunites with Grey, and their race against the Australian World's Cup champion leads to a thrilling climax on the high sea.

Critics' reviews

"Wind sometimes dawdles, but it’s a sports movie with soul."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"'Wind' is not commonplace movie making. The sailing sequences, including one short, very funny race off Newport involving the kind of small boats you and I might sail, surpass anything I've ever seen on the screen."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"A vigorous and colorful piece of filmmaking that never quite shakes free of an embarrassingly trite, formulaic screenplay."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"Ballard has infused 'Wind' with an old-fashioned romantic sentimentality that is affecting from time to time. But this and everything else that is good about the picture fights an ultimately losing battle against an inept story"

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
"'Wind' succeeds in turning the competition into one that is intense, pictorially compelling and intelligible in terms of basic racing maneuvers

Peter Stack: SFGATE
"The elements prove far more stimulating than the people in 'Wind', a sail-racing saga that could have used a great deal more dramatic rigging."

Variety Staff: Variety
"'Wind' is quite content to keep things at the visual and visceral level, and on that unambitious but highly photogenic plane it's a handsome piece of salt-water escapism."

Jay Carr: Boston Globe

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Wind

1992

Carroll Ballard

5.6

(772)