The Big Blue (1988)
May 10, 1988Release Date
The Big Blue (1988)
May 10, 1988Release Date
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Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Currently The Big Blue is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Apple TV
Streaming in:🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Cast & Crew.
![Jean-Marc Barr](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2349-jean-marc-barr.webp)
Jean-Marc Barr
Jacques Mayol
![Jean Reno](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/9629-jean-reno.webp)
Jean Reno
Enzo Molinari
![Rosanna Arquette](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/14591-rosanna-arquette.webp)
Rosanna Arquette
Johana
![Paul Shenar](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/32193-paul-shenar.webp)
Paul Shenar
Dr. Laurence
![Sergio Castellitto](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11869-sergio-castellitto.webp)
Sergio Castellitto
Novelli
![Jean Bouise](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/10932-jean-bouise.webp)
Jean Bouise
Uncle Louis
![Marc Duret](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/34715-marc-duret.webp)
Marc Duret
Roberto
![Griffin Dunne](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/8452-griffin-dunne.webp)
Griffin Dunne
Duffy
![Andréas Voutsinas](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/28061-andreas-voutsinas.webp)
Andréas Voutsinas
Priest
![Kimberly Beck](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/12551-kimberly-beck.webp)
Kimberly Beck
Sally
![Valentina Vargas](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/10728-valentina-vargas.webp)
Valentina Vargas
Bonita
![Alessandra Vazzoler](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/26797-alessandra-vazzoler.webp)
Alessandra Vazzoler
La Mamma
![Luc Besson](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/16246-luc-besson.webp)
Luc Besson
Director
![Patrick Fontana](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/381233-patrick-fontana.webp)
Patrick Fontana
Alfredo
![Robert Garland](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Robert Garland
Writer
![Geoffrey Carey](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/38649-geoffrey-carey.webp)
Geoffrey Carey
Supervisor
![Marilyn Goldin](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Marilyn Goldin
Writer
![Jan Rouiller](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/13703-jan-rouiller.webp)
Jan Rouiller
Noireuter
![Pierre Semmler](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/21753-pierre-semmler.webp)
Pierre Semmler
Franck
![Jacques Mayol](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/80028-jacques-mayol.webp)
Jacques Mayol
Writer
![Pierre-Alain de Garrigues](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/34718-pierre-alain-de-garrigues.webp)
Pierre-Alain de Garrigues
Superintendent
![Patrice Ledoux](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/203563-patrice-ledoux.webp)
Patrice Ledoux
Producer
![Claude Besson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Claude Besson
Jacques' Father
![Éric Serra](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/71210-eric-serra.webp)
Éric Serra
Composer
![Bruce Guerre-Berthelot](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/57727-bruce-guerre-berthelot.webp)
Bruce Guerre-Berthelot
Young Jacques
![Carlo Varini](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1170801-carlo-varini.webp)
Carlo Varini
Cinematographer
![Gregory Forstner](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Gregory Forstner
Young Enzo
![Olivier Mauffroy](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/315774-olivier-mauffroy.webp)
Olivier Mauffroy
Editor
![Nathalie Chéron](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1157578-nathalie-cheron.webp)
Nathalie Chéron
CastingDirector
![Eric Do](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/57730-eric-do.webp)
Eric Do
Japanese Diver
![Jacques Lévy](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jacques Lévy
Doctor
![Lissa Pillu](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Lissa Pillu
CastingDirector
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Details.
Release DateMay 10, 1988
Original NameLe Grand Bleu
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 48m
Content RatingPG-13
Budget$14,390,509
Filming LocationsUnited States Virgin Islands · New York City, United States · Peru · Greece · The Bahamas
Genres
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Wiki.
The Big Blue (released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 drama film in the French Cinéma du look visual style, made by French director Luc Besson. It is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed "Enzo Molinari" and played by Jean Reno), and Mayol's fictionalized relationship with his girlfriend Johana Baker (played by Rosanna Arquette).
The film became one of France's most commercially successful films (although an adaptation for US release was a commercial failure in that country). French President Jacques Chirac referred to the film in describing Mayol, after his death in 2001, as an enduring symbol for the "Big Blue" generation.The story was heavily adapted for cinema. In real life, Mayol lived from 1927 to 2001 and Maiorca retired from diving to politics in the 1980s. Both set no-limits-category deep diving records below 100 metres, and Mayol was indeed involved in scientific research into human aquatic potential, but neither reached 400 feet (120 metres) as portrayed in the film, and they were not direct competitors. Mayol himself was a screenwriter for the film, and Mayol's search for love, family, "wholeness" and the meaning of life and death, and the conflict and tension between his yearning for the deep and his relationship with his girlfriend are also major elements of the latter part of the film.
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