<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $120 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $328.7 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Perfect Storm is a 2000 American biographical disaster drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on the 1997 non-fiction book of the same name by Sebastian Junger . The film tells the story of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea with all hands after being caught in the Perfect Storm of 1991 . The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, Karen Allen and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio . It was released on June 30, 2000, by Warner Bros . </P> <P> In October 1991, the commercial fishing boat Andrea Gail returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch . Desperate for money, Captain Billy Tyne (Clooney) convinces the Andrea Gail crew to join him for one more late season fishing expedition . The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, leaving a developing tropical storm behind them . Initially unsuccessful, they head to the Flemish Cap, where their luck greatly improves . At the height of their fishing, the ice machine breaks; the only way to sell their catch before it spoils is to hurry back to shore . After debating whether to sail through the building storm or to wait it out, the crew decides to risk the storm . However, between Andrea Gail and Gloucester is a confluence of two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane, which the Andrea Gail crew underestimates . </P>

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