The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. This is a film that doesn't leave you: the images of gigantic waves and ice bergs and superhuman levels of courage and endurance are hard to process. If it were a work of fiction you would dismiss it as Hollywood hype: but it's not, find out more...
15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life. 'Submarine' is a melancholic comedy, and would slip easily into a boxset with 'Rushmore', 'Scott Pilgrim' and 'Harold and Maude'. Richard Ayoade's debut is extremely well-crafted, less cynical and more mature than you might expect from an alumnus of dark British comedy.
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