Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today's Thursday, May 30th, 2024. On today's episode of the show,

I'm going to talk a little bit about the new Disney movie Young Woman in the Sea and present an interview with producer Jerry Bruckheimer. My name is Ben Pearson I am an editor at slash

film.com and today it's just me I'm joined by nobody to talk a little bit about this film.

So there have been very few mainstream American movies released in theaters this year that I would consider to be truly family friendly in that you could conceivably gather kids, teenagers, parents, and grandparents together, have them watch this movie and pretty

much everybody would be entertained.

That crowd-pleasing quality has been a staple of Jerry Bruckheimer's career and young woman in the sea is a throwback to the type of inspirational sports dramas that used to be far more commonplace. Daisy Ridley stars in this movie she plays Trudy Ederley, who is the title character,

who becomes an award-winning swimmer

and decides to do something no woman and only five men

had ever done before, which is Swim the English Channel from France to England.

She's really great in this movie.

Her performance is incredibly physical.

She said in another interview that it was the toughest thing on her body that she had

done to that point in her career and I believe that a hundred percent.

She spends so much time in this movie in the water and while her character does a great job of hardly ever seeming exhausted,

just thinking about the production and all of the

takes that really must have had to do just makes me very, very tired. This movie hits

all of the predictable beats that you would expect and while it doesn't

necessarily reinvent the wheel, it's undeniably effective at

conjuring the emotions that it wants you to feel. Jochem Roning, who is the

director, burst onto the scene with Kontiki, another nautical period drama that he co-directed with

Esmond Sandburg, and the two of them previously worked with Bruckheimer when they directed

Pirates of the Caribbean, Deadman Tell No Tales, which is the fifth movie in that franchise.

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