Longitude
DVD
Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons stars in this
sweeping adaption of Dava Sobel's
best-selling book of high seas adventure and political intrigue.
Determined to stop shipping losses on the oceans of the 18th century,
Britain's Parliament offers a fabulous cash award to anyone who can devise
a way to determine longitute at sea. Convinced he can solve the problem
that has defeated England's best minds, rural clock maker John Harrison
(Michael Gambon) begins an obsessive, 40-year struggle to claim the
Longitude prize with his ingenious marine clock. 200 years later, naval
officer Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons) stumbles across Harrison's forgotten
chronometers and devotes himself to restoring these long-neglected
mechanical masterpieces. |