Sahara

Directed by
Breck Eisner

Writing credits
(WGA)
Clive Cussler (novel)
Thomas Dean Donnelly (screenplay)
Joshua Oppenheimer (screenplay)
John C. Richards (screenplay)
James V. Hart (screenplay)

Release Date:
8 April 2005 (USA)

Genre:
Action | Adventure | Comedy

Cast :
* Matthew McConaughey — Lieutenant Dirk Pitt
* Steve Zahn — Lieutenant (junior grade) Al Giordino
* Penélope Cruz — Eva Rojas
* Lambert Wilson — Yves Massarde
* Lennie James — Brigadier General Zateb Kazim
* William H. Macy — Admiral James Sandecker
* Rainn Wilson — Commander Rudi Gunn
* Delroy Lindo — Carl
* Patrick Malahide — Ambassador Polidori
* Glynn Turman — Dr. Frank Hopper
* Dayna Cussler — Kitty Mannock (scenes deleted)

Original Sound Track :
1. Stay With Me - Faces
2. We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
3. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
4. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
5. Right Place Wrong Time - Dr. John
6. Never Been Any Reason - Head East
7. In a Foreign Land - The Kinks
8. I'm On Fire - Dwight Twilley
9. On the Road Again - Canned Heat
10. Time Loves a Hero - Little Feat
11. Fire on the Mountain - The Marshall Tucker Band
12. Boat Montage - Clint Mansell
( source : http://www.moviemusic.com/soundtrack/sahara2005 )

Plot :
Matthew McConaughey stars as explorer and adventurer Dirk Pitt in this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Clive Cussler. Pitt thinks he may have found both a fortune and the answer to a long-standing mystery when he discovers a rare coin in the waters of a river in West Africa. During the Civil War, an ironclad battleship with a valuable cargo went missing, and Pitt's theory is that the coin places the ship somewhere in the Sahara Desert. Pitt and his goofy sidekick, Al Giordino (Steve Zahn), set out to find it, but along the way they make the acquaintance of Dr. Eva Rojas (Penélope Cruz), a scientist and physician who is trying to determine the source of a strange and deadly disease sweeping the nation. As Eva joins Dirk and Al, they begin to wonder if the mysteries they're trying to uncover might be somehow linked. Sahara was only the second of Cussler's Dirk Pitt adventures to be adapted for the screen; the first, 1980's Raise the Titanic, was publicly dismissed by the author. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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