Deepwater Horizon (2016) on Netflix
PG-1320161h 47mActionDramaHistoryThriller
Mike Williams and Jimmy Harrell board the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig off Louisiana. The cement test on the well was never done, and Jimmy wants a negative pressure test first.
- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb7.1/10202,173 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes82%
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Plot summary
Transocean, a drilling contractor, is finishing a well for BP off the Louisiana coast, using the oil rig Deepwater Horizon. Electronics technician Mike Williams and installation manager Jimmy Harrell are among the crew, along with Andrea Fleytas, who works on the bridge. Before he leaves shore, Mike's daughter Sydney asks him to bring home a dinosaur tooth, and a co-worker gives him one. The crew that tests the cement in a new well has already left the rig, and BP managers Donald Vidrine and Robert Kaluza want it moved to its next job. Harrell persuades Vidrine to run a negative pressure test, and the result indicates that the well is not sealed off from the reservoir below. Vidrine disputes the finding and calls for a second test.
Cast
- Jeremy Sandeas Adam Weise
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Production designer Chris Seagers built a 70-foot, 85 percent scale version of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the parking lot of the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans park, with a working helipad and elevators and a tank of two million gallons of water beneath it.
- Former crew members of the rig were frustrated enough by the factual liberties taken in the film's script and in the media that they started their own crowd-funded documentary project before the film was released.
