Dead Calm is a 1989 Australian psychological thriller film. Plot: Rae Ingram is involved in a car crash which results in the death of her son. Her husband suggests that they help deal with their grief by heading out for a vacation alone on their yacht. In the middle of the Pacific, they encounter a drifting schooner that seems to be taking on water. A man, Hughie Warriner, rows over to the Ingrams' yacht for help. He claims that his ship is sinking and that his companions have all died of food poisoning.
