Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Release Date: Nov 14, 2003 - Wide Release
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Film Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Australia
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Based on the best-selling novels of Patrick O'Brian, the film stars Russell Crowe as "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, who pits his crew of the H.M.S. Surprise against a much better armed and ruthless privateer, in a chase that takes him all the way to the far side of the world. Rising newcomer Paul Bettany ("A Beautiful Mind") plays the ship's surgeon Dr. Stephen Maturin.
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Weir directed Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast (1986).