The Mercy

• 5.9 Drama
• 2018-02-09
• 102 minutes mins

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.

Starring:

Colin Firth (Donald Crowhurst) Rachel Weisz (Clare Crowhurst) David Thewlis (Rodney Hallworth) Mark Gatiss (Ronald Hall) Genevieve Gaunt ('Miss Teignmouth') Jonathan Bailey (Ian Wheeler) Andrew Buchan (Ian Milburn) Simon McBurney (Sir Francis Chichester) Eleanor Stagg (Rachel Crowhurst) Ken Stott (Stanley Best)

Director:

James Marsh

Writer:

Scott Z. Burns