Summary: Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Creating a memoir of his own experiences, writer and Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo) tells the story of Dale, an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale instead finds the experience rich in unexpected ways... (imdb)

Genre: Comedy

Country: Canada, USA

Directed By: Joe Mantegna

Written By: David Mamet

Starring: Denis Leary, Peter Falk, Robert Forster, Charles Durning, J.J. Johnston, Jack Wallace, George Wendt, Tony Mamet

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