Written By: Aaron Meyer
In the Heart of the Sea is not the retelling of the story Moby Dick, however it is about the story that inspired the tale. This film portrays a young Herman Melville (played by Ben Wishaw) seeking out the last surviving member of a ship named The Essex. He catches up with a much older Tom Nickerson (played by Brendan Gleeson) who was merely 14 when he was aboard the ship. After bribing Nickerson to talk about the truth of what happened upon the doomed vessel many years later, Tom's story begins and we are taken on a voyage that both excites yet leaves us wanting a bit more from legendary director Ron Howard.
