Overview
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
Director and cast
- Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst
- Rachel Weisz as Clare Crowhurst
- David Thewlis as Rodney Hallworth
- Ken Stott as Stanley Best
- Simon McBurney as Sir Francis Chichester
- Mark Gatiss as Ronald Hall
- Jonathan Bailey as Ian Wheeler
- Oliver Maltman as Dennis Herbstein
- Kit Connor as Simon Crowhurst
- Finn Elliot as James Crowhurst
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