Adrift

Adrift: 

Marketing at its best. Shailene Woodley again shows off why she is becoming one of Hollywood's most underrated actors of her generation. Just like her performance in The Spectacular Now, she undersells the magnitude of her emotions. While the viewer can look at her and see a simple young girl who doesn't truly understand her emotions, Woodley secretly demonstrates how powerful she feels and how it gets her through the emotion trauma of being Adrift on a damaged sailboat for 40 days. Based on the true story about Tami Oldham Ashcraft, who began sailing from Haiti to the San Diego with her boyfriend Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) when they run into a hurricane. Tami then has to survive on her own with Richard incapacitated and find a way back to land with a broken boat and no electricity. This is one film that skillfully uses the flashback feature that had been beaten to death by Hollywood. The movie opens with Tami awakening with the hurricane over, her boat in shambles and Richard nowhere to be found. It then proceeds to flash back and forth between what lead to her crossing to Pacific and how she is surviving with so little. If Shailene continues with performances like this she will be a staple in Hollywood for years to come.

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