The Bounty

“After 200 years, the truth behind the legend.”

Lieutenant William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) commands the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789, a stiff, exacting officer sailing for Tahiti with his friend Fletcher Christian (Mel Gibson) as his second. Roger Donaldson follows the voyage from the cramped lower decks to the island, where the crew finds a tropical paradise. The sun-bleached beach and the lush green hills sit just beyond a ship that has begun to turn against its captain.