Deep-sea explorer Brock Lovett has reached the most famous shipwreck of all - the Titanic. Emerging with a safe believed to contain a diamond called 'The Heart of the Ocean', he discovers the safe does not hold the diamond but a drawing of a beautiful woman wearing it. When Brock is later interviewed on TV, he shows the drawing to the cameras, and a 100-year-old woman named Rose Calvert living in Michigan recognizes the woman in the drawing - herself! On a visit to Brock's explorer ship over the wreck, Rose tells her story of the Titanic and its ill-fated voyage. Engaged to a would-be steel magnate, Caledon Hockley, she boards the Titanic's first-class suites with him & her mother in Southampton. Also boarding are Jack Dawson & his friend Fabrizio, after a lucky poker game wins them tickets in steerage. When Rose attempts suicide by jumping off the stern in 3rd class, Jack pulls her back onto the ship...and a bond is forged between them as Jack is invited by her into 1st-class the following day. Rose's mother & Cal Hockley try desperate measures to keep them apart. But that strategy goes out the window when the Titanic collides with an iceberg, and due to a design flaw begins to sink - despite being proclaimed 'unsinkable'. Now Rose & Jack must fight to stay alive, but is young Jack already doomed because of his lower status as a steerage passenger? Written by Derek O'Cain
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Release: 19 December 1997
Running Time: 194 min
Awards: Won 11 Oscars. Another 76 wins & 48 nominations
AFI Recognition:
100 YEARS100 THRILLS #25
100 YEARS100 PASSIONS #37
100 YEARS100 SONGS #14
100 YEARS100 MOVIE QUOTES #100
100 YEARS100 MOVIES 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION #83
Producers: James Cameron, Jon Landau
Executive Producer: Rae Sanchini
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson), Kate Winslet (Rose Dewitt Bukater), Billy Zane (Cal Hockley), Kathy Bates (Molly Brown), Frances Fisher (Ruth Dewitt Bukater)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Domestic Total Gross: $601 million
Worldwide Total Gross: $1843 million
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