Adrift (2018)

The film begins in a long shot of Tami (Shailene Woodley) in a drowning boat, dead engine and no fresh water and she doesn't know where her fiance, Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) is.
The film alternates between flashbacks of how Tami and Richard met, both traveling spirits who have never said no to any adventure. Nothing is too crazy for Tami, I wish I could channel one once of her spirit and fearlessness. Richard loves sailing to many different places even though he gets lonely, sunburned and hungry, but the experience is unlike anything he's ever known before and he loves living his own life.
Richard gets a great opportunity. Some of his friends need to return to England quickly so for a good sum of money, he can sail their boat back to San Diego and he accepts almost immediately. Though Tami isn't thrilled at first, she can't let him. After all, they are in love.
And then, Hurricane Raymond happens and it is devastating. But they survive. Richard's leg is shattered and Tami has plenty of cuts and bruises. Most of the food is gone along with two of three sales. The motor has died. The rubber is bad. But Tami perseveres. She must or else she will die. The food and water is severely rationed as they drift in the ocean but she survives to be rescued.
However, Richard never did. He has all in Tami's mind which feels like such a rip-off. I wanted that couple to make it. Despite Richard being the one to get Tami into this mess in the first place, his spirit and the memory of those two together is what kept Tami alive through those wretched conditions.
While the film is tragically sad, Woodley and Claflin are brilliant and Woodley truly does lose the weight to make Tami look as though she's been lost at sea for over a month. The only nit-picky problem is that Richard's friends who make the offer aren't ever properly introduced. I wish I knew how Richard knew them. Also, this took place in 1983 which makes sense as you never see cell phones or a laptop but you don't miss them.
That being said, the performances are superb and make the film worth watching over and over again. Grade: A-