7.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The French Atlantic Affair (1979)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.3
Overview
When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it's paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it's paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central conflict, a luxury liner hijacking, is a universally condemned criminal act, leading to a narrative focused on suspense, survival, and the efforts to restore order, rather than promoting a specific political ideology.
The movie features a predominantly white cast without apparent intentional race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative, a standard thriller about a hijacked luxury liner, does not explicitly critique traditional identities or center on strong DEI themes.
Secondary
The film 'The French Atlantic Affair' does not appear to feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative, a disaster/thriller miniseries, focuses on a luxury liner and its passengers without incorporating queer identities or storylines, resulting in no depiction to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1979 show is an adaptation of Ernest Lehman's novel. Key characters, such as Captain Jean-Claude Dubois, Dr. Elizabeth Harding, and Inspector Jean-Pierre Duval, maintain the same genders as established in the original source material. No gender swaps were identified.
The 1979 miniseries is an adaptation of a 1977 novel. There is no evidence that any character's race was canonically established as one race in the source material and then portrayed as a different race in the show.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.5
7.0
Critic Ratings
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