Mercy, The

[Available Jan. 1 on crackleplus.com.] James Marsh's intense, engaging, factually based, heartbreaking, star-studded (David Thewlis, Simon McBurney, Ken Stott, Mark Gatiss, Jonathan Bailey, Adrian Schiller, Oliver Maltman, Andrew Buchan, Greg Hicks, Sam Hoare, Geoff Bladon, Danny Jackson, and Clare Crowhurst), 141-minute, 2017 biographical film in which tenacious, ambitious, stubborn, amateur British yachtsman Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), who has three children (Eleanor Stagg, Kit Connor, and Finn Elliot), ignores the advice of his concerned wife (Rachel Weisz) by entering the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in October 1968 and begins to chronicle his harrowing, dangerous, lonely journey in his custom-built Teignmouth Electron trimaran to circumnavigate the globe while sailing for more than seven months and 13,000 miles.
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