7.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The French Atlantic Affair (1979)
The French Atlantic Affair (1979)
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
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Viewer 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
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 traditional cast for its era, with no evident intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. The narrative does not appear to critically portray traditional identities or center explicit 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 film 'The French Atlantic Affair' does not feature any discernible transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a disaster/mystery aboard an ocean liner, with no elements related to transgender identity. Consequently, there is no portrayal to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Based on the source novel by Ernest Lehman, the 1979 miniseries portrays its main characters with the same genders as established in the original material. No instances of a character canonically established as one gender being depicted as another were found.
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
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7.5
7.0
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