The Perfect Storm (2000) is a disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, based on the 1997 nonfiction book by Sebastian Junger. The film tells the harrowing true story of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing ship caught in the middle of a massive storm in 1991.

The film is set in the personal town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. After an intimate fishing season, Captain Billy Tyne (played by George Clooney) decides to take his crew out on one last trip to sea before the fishing season ends. The crew, including Bobby Shatford (Mark Wahlberg), are powered by the promise of the biggest possible payday. However, their luck ran out when they were caught in the “Perfect Storm”, a unique weather event that created an almost unprecedented storm.