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*'''Produced by: '''Harold Lee Tichenor,''' '''Rocky Lang
  
*'''Produced by: '''Harold Lee Tichenor,''' '''Rocky Lang
 
*'''Written by: '''Ross LaManna, Joyce Eliason
  
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*'''Starring:''' Peter Gallager, George C- Scott, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Harley Jane Kozak, Marilu Henner
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*'''Starring:''' Catherine Zeta-Jones. Peter Gallagher, Mike Doyle, Tim Curry, Felicity Waterman, George C. Scott, Eva Marie Saint
 
*'''Music by: '''Lennie Niehaus
  
*'''Music by: '''Lennie Niehaus
 
*'''Cinematography:''' David Hennings
  
*'''Cinematography:''' David Hennings
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[[File:Isabella3.jpg|thumb|left|324px|When she is ready to get on board the Titanic, Isabella encounters her former lover Wynn]]
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''Titanic'' follows three main story threads.
  
   
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''Titanic'' follows three main story threads:
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Isabella Paradine is traveling on the ''Titanic'' to join her husband after attending her aunt's funeral in England. On the ''Titanic'', she meets Wynn Park, her former lover. She falls in love with him again, and after a brief affair, she sends her husband a wireless saying they cannot be together anymore (despite their daughter). When the ship starts sinking, Isabella reluctantly leaves Wynn when he forces her to board a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(shipboard) lifeboat]. As the boat is lowered, Isabella confesses a long kept secret that her daughter Claire is actually Wynn's. Later on board the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carpathia RMS ''Carpathia''] she is grief-stricken when she finds Wynn's lifeless body on deck amongst other victims who have died of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia hypothermia], but luckily, when the ''Carpathia'' reaches [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York New York] she is reunited with her family who are blissfully unaware of Isabella's tryst because the telegram was never sent out due to the sinking.
  
   
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- Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is going to travel on the ''Titanic'' to join her husband after attending her aunt's funeral in England.
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Also in first class is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_family Allison family], a real family who traveled on the Titanic, returning home to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal Montreal] with their two small children and new nurse, Alice Cleaver. They gradually become wary and suspicious of her hysterical and neurotic behavior. Later on, a fellow maid asks her if she'd seen her in Cairo the previous month, but soon realizes that she remembers her from the highly publicized trial where Alice was accused of throwing her baby off a train. When the ''Titanic'' starts sinking, Alice Cleaver panics and quickly boards a lifeboat with Trevor, the Allisons' infant son. The parents with their small daughter are unaware that the baby is safe and refuse to leave the ship without him, which in the end costs them their lives.
  
   
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Just when she is about to get on board, she encounters Wynn Park (Peter Galager), her former lover. Wynn is still in love with her, but Isabella tries to avoid him since the beginning of the trip. She even tries to change her room to be far away from Wynn's.
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In third class, a young vagrant named Jamie Perse steals a ticket to get on board. He manages to become friends with one of the crewmen, Simon Doonan, who is also a robber, but later is revealed to be a much more violent and callous criminal than Jamie. The young man falls in love with Aase (pronounced "Osa") Ludvigsen, a recent Christian convert and missionary. On the night of the sinking, Aase is raped and beaten by Doonan, causing her to lose her faith and will to live, but Jamie manages to get her into Isabella's boat. Unbeknownst to them, Doonan also sneaks aboard that same boat, disguised as an old woman. After the ship sinks, Aase is knocked off the lifeboat by Doonan after she recognizes him, and he attempts to hold the passengers in the boat hostage at gunpoint, but Officer Lowe, who is in charge of the boat, hits Doonan in the head with a paddle, snapping his neck. Jamie himself manages to survive when he accidentally falls into one of the last lifeboats before the ''Titanic'' sinks. He subsequently atones for his past life after he finds Aase in the makeshift hospital aboard the ''Carpathia''. In the end, upon arriving in New York, the two plan to start a new life together.
  
   
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Eustacia drops Wildeve when Mrs. Yeobright's son Clym (Ray Steveson), a successful diamond merchant, returns from Paris to his native Egdon Heath. Although he has no plans to return to Paris or the diamond trade and is, in fact, openly planning to become a schoolmaster for the rural poor, Eustacia sees him as a way to escape the hated heath and begin a grander, richer existence in a glamorous new location. With 
  
   
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[[File:Eustacia5.jpg|thumb|left|338px|Clym and Eustacia got married]]
  
   
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At a dinner in the restaurant of the Titanic, Wynn flits with Ophelia Jack (Katharine Isabelle) dancing with her and making Isabella jealous. After the dance at the restaurant, Isabella and Wynn confront eachother 
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some difficulty, she arranges to meet Clym, and the two soon fall in love. When Mrs. Yeobright objects, Clym quarrels with her.
  
   
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[[File:Isabella4.jpg|thumb|336px|Isabella and Wynn are still in love with eachother and they begin a romance]]
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When he sees that Eustacia is lost to him, Wildeve marries Thomasin, who gives birth to a daughter the next summer. Clym and Eustacia also marry and move to a small cottage five miles away, where they enjoy a brief period of happiness. However: Clym studies night and day to prepare for his new career as a schoolmaster while Eustacia clings to the hope that he'll give up the idea and take her abroad. Instead, he nearly blinds himself with too much reading. Eustacia, her dreams blasted, finds herself living in a hut on the heath.
  
   
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privately. Wynn says to her he have been jelaous all the time because Isabella is now married to another man, a wealthy gentleman Isabella parents wanted for her. Isabella says to him she married her husband because her parents wanted but her parents are now dead. She says to him that she still loves Wynn.
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Eustacia4.jpg|Eustacia tries to help his blind husband in everything she can
  
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After the incident, Wynn starts to romance Isabella during the trip and she finally falls in love with him again.
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After a brief affair with Wynn at the Titanic, Isabella contemplates divorce and she sends her husband a wireless saying they cannot be together anymore (despite their daughter).
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isabella5.jpg|'''Isabella and Wynn are living a romance during the trip and they visit the Captain'''
 
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At this point, Wildeve reappears. He comes calling on the Yeobrights in the middle of one hot August day and, although Clym is at home, he is fast asleep on the hearth after a gruelling session of furze-cutting. While Eustacia and Wildeve are talking, Mrs. Yeobright knocks on the door; she has decided to pay a courtesy call in the hopes of healing the estrangement between herself and her son. Eustacia looks out at her and then, in some alarm, ushers her visitor out the back door. She hears Clym calling to his mother and, thinking his mother's knocking has awakened him, remains in the garden for a few moments. When Eustacia goes back inside, she finds Clym still asleep and his mother gone. Clym, she now realises, merely cried out his mother's name in his sleep.
  
   
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Mrs Yeobright, it turns out, saw Eustacia looking out the window at her; she also saw Clym's gear by the door, and so knew they were both at home. Now, thinking she has been deliberately barred from her son's home, she miserably begins the long, hot walk home and dies. Eustacia, racked with guilt, dares not tell him of her role in the tragedy; when he eventually finds out from a neighbour's child about his mother's visit—and Wildeve's—he rushes home to accuse his wife of murder and adultery. Eustacia refuses to explain her actions; instead, she tells him ''You are no blessing, my husband'' and reproaches him for his cruelty. She then moves back to her grandfather's house, where she struggles with her despair while she awaits some word from Clym.
  
   
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Wildeve visits her again on Guy Fawkes night, and offers to help her get to Paris. Eustacia realises that if she lets Wildeve help her, she'll be obliged to become his mistress. She tells him she will send him a signal by night if she decides to accept. Clym's anger, meanwhile, has cooled and he sends Eustacia a letter the next day offering reconciliation. The letter arrives a few minutes too late; by the time her grandfather tries to give it to her, she has already signalled to Wildeve and set off through wind and rain to meet him. She walks along weeping, however, knowing she is about to break her marriage vows for a man who is unworthy of her.
  
   
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[[File:Isabella6.jpg|thumb|176px|Isabella is rescued by the Carpathia]]
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Wildeve readies a horse and gig and waits for Eustacia in the dark. Thomasin, guessing his plans, sends Clym to intercept him; she also, by chance, encounters Diggory Venn as she dashes across the heath herself in pursuit of her husband. Eustacia does not appear; instead, she falls or throws herself into nearby Shadwater Weir. Clym and Wildeve hear the splash and hurry to investigate. Wildeve plunges recklessly after Eustacia without bothering to remove his coat, while Clym, proceeding more cautiously, nevertheless is also soon at the mercy of the raging waters. Venn arrives in time to save Clym, but is too late for the others. When Clym revives, he accuses himself of murdering his wife and mother.
  
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When the ship starts sinking, Isabella reluctantly gets into a lifeboat (since she doesn't want to leave Wynn alone) after Wynn convinces her and forces her to board the boat. As the boat is lowered, Isabella confesses to Wynn a long kept secret: that her daughter Claire is actually Wynn's.
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Isabella then is on the boat of Officer Lowe with some other women. Isabella asks the officer if they can go near the Titanic to rescue some survivors there are on the water, since in the lifeboat can be more poeple. The officer wants to wait some time, but after a while the lifeboat comes to the rescue of the survivors. Unfortunatelly, they have waited too long and there not any survivors on the water, only dead corpses.
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Later the boat is rescued by the '''RMS Carpathia.'''
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On the Carpaathia Isabella is grief-stricken when she finds Wynn's lifeless body on deck amongst other victims who have died of hypothermia.
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<gallery type="slideshow" widths="346" position="center">
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isabella9.jpg|'''Isabella finds Wynn's dead body on the Carpathia.'''
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</gallery>
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But luckily, when the ''Carpathia'' reaches '''New York''' she is reunited with her family who are blissfully unaware of Isabella's tryst because the telegram was never sent out due to the sinking.
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<gallery type="slideshow" widths="346" position="center">
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isabella7.jpg|'''Isabella meets her husband and her daugther Clarice in New York.'''
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</gallery>
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- Also in first class is the Allison family, a real family who traveled on the Titanic, returning home to Montreal with their two small children and new nurse, Alice Cleaver (Felicity Waterman).
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They gradually become wary and suspicious of the nurse hysterical and neurotic behavior. Later on, a fellow maid asks her if she'd seen her in Cairo the previous month, but soon realizes that she remembers her from the highly publicized trial where Alice was accused of throwing her baby off a train.
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When the ''Titanic'' starts sinking, Alice Cleaver panics and quickly boards a lifeboat with Trevor, the Allisons' infant son. The parents with their small daughter are unaware that the baby is safe and refuse to leave the ship without him, which in the end costs them their lives.
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- A young vagrant named Jamie Persei (Mike Doyle) steals a ticket at a bar to get on board of the Titanic.
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At the ship, he manages to become friends with one of the crewmen, Simon Doonan (Tim Curry), who is also a robber, but later is revealed to be a much more violent and callous criminal than Jamie.
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Jamie falls in love with Aase Ludvigsen (Sonsee Ahray), a recent Christian convert and missionary.
   
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On the night of the sinking, Aase is raped and beaten by Doonan, causing her to lose her faith and will to live, but Jamie manages to get her into Isabella's boat when the ship is sinking.
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In the epilogue, Venn gives up being a reddleman to become a dairy farmer. Two years later, Thomasin marries him and they settle down happily together. Clym, now a sad, solitary figure, eventually takes up preaching.
  
   
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Unbeknownst to them, Doonan also sneaks aboard that same boat, disguised as an old woman. After the ship sinks, Aase is knocked off the lifeboat by Doonan after she recognizes him, and he attempts to hold the passengers in the boat hostage at gunpoint, but Officer Lowe, who is in charge of the boat, hits Doonan in the head with a paddle, snapping his neck.
   
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Jamie himself manages to survive when he accidentally falls into one of the last lifeboats before the ''Titanic'' sinks. He subsequently atones for his past life after he finds Aase in the makeshift hospital aboard the ''Carpathia''. In the end, upon arriving in New York, the two plan to start a new life together.
 
==Cast==
  
==Cast==
   
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'''- Catherine Zeta-Jones''' - Eustacia Vye
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'''- Catherine Zeta-Jones''' - Isabella Paradine
   
   
   
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[[File:Gallagher_titanic1-510x378.jpg|thumb|192px]]
   
   
   
   
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'''- Peter Gallagher '''- Wynn Park
   
   
   
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'''- Ray Stevenson '''- Clym Yeobright
  
   
   
   
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'''- Clive Owen''' - Damon Wildeve
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'''- Mike Doyle''' - Jamie Persie
   
   
   
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'''- Joan Plowright''' - Mrs. Yeobright
  
   
   
   
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'''- Tim Curry''' - Simon Doonan
   
   
   
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'''- Claire Skinner''' - Thomasin
  
   
   
   
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[[File:Returnnative5.jpg|thumb|158px]]
  
   
   
   
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'''- Felicity Waterman''' - Alice Cleaver
   
   
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'''- Steven Mackintosh''' - Diggory Venn
  
   
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[[File:Georgecscott1.jpg|thumb|198px]]
   
   
   
   
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'''- Paul Rogers''' - Captain Vye
  
   
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'''- Celia Imrie''' - Susan Nunsuch
  
   
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'''-  Richard Avery''' - Humphrey
  
   
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'''- Peter Wight''' - Timothy
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'''- George C. Scott''' - Captain Edward J. Smith
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'''- Eva Marie Saint''' - Hazel Foley
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'''- Harley Jane Kozak''' - Bess Aliison
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'''-  Sonsee Ahray''' - Aase Ludvigsen
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'''- Marilu Henner''' - Margaret "Molly" Brown
 
==Reception==
  
==Reception==
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''Titanic'' received mixed reviews from critics. The ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Daily_News New York Daily News]'' commented on the fact that the acting was substandard and the ship's operators and owner are portrayed "about as sympathetically as those connected with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez Exxon Valdez]."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1996_TV_miniseries)#cite_note-2 [2]]</sup> The ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Post-Intelligencer Seattle Post-Intelligencer]'' also referenced the "embarrassingly bad acting" and out of place scenes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot dead link]'']</span></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1996_TV_miniseries)#cite_note-3 [3]]</sup>
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''Titanic'' received mixed reviews from critics. '''The New York Daily News''' commented on the fact that the acting was substandard and the ship's operators and owner are portrayed "about as sympathetically as those connected with the''' Exxon Valdez'''." '''The Seattle Post-Intelligencer''' also referenced the "embarrassingly bad acting" and out of place scenes.
 
==Awards==
  
==Awards==
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''Titanic'' received an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award Emmy Award] for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special. It was also nominated for Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special.
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''Titanic'' received an '''Emmy Award''' for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special. It was also nominated for Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special.
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| rowspan="2"|'''1997'''
  
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|Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special
  
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|David Husby, David E. Fluhr, Adam Jenkins, Don Digirolamo for part 1
  
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|Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special
  
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|Joe I. Tompkins, Jori Woodman
  
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Movie poster

Titanic is a 1996 two-part CBS miniseries. The drama TV Movie follows several characters on board the RMS Titanic when she sinks on her maiden voyage in 1912. The miniseries was directed by Robert Lieberman. The original music score was composed by Lennie Niehaus.

  • Directed by: Robert Lieberman
  • Produced by: Harold Lee Tichenor, Rocky Lang
  • Written by: Ross LaManna, Joyce Eliason
  • Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones. Peter Gallagher, Mike Doyle, Tim Curry, Felicity Waterman, George C. Scott, Eva Marie Saint
  • Music by: Lennie Niehaus
  • Cinematography: David Hennings
  • Edited by: Tod Feuerman
  • Country: Canada, U.S.A.
  • Language: English
  • Running time: 173 minutes
  • Release date: November 17, 1996
  • Distributed by: RHI Entertaiment


Plot

Isabella3

When she is ready to get on board the Titanic, Isabella encounters her former lover Wynn

Titanic follows three main story threads:

- Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is going to travel on the Titanic to join her husband after attending her aunt's funeral in England.

Just when she is about to get on board, she encounters Wynn Park (Peter Galager), her former lover. Wynn is still in love with her, but Isabella tries to avoid him since the beginning of the trip. She even tries to change her room to be far away from Wynn's.


At a dinner in the restaurant of the Titanic, Wynn flits with Ophelia Jack (Katharine Isabelle) dancing with her and making Isabella jealous. After the dance at the restaurant, Isabella and Wynn confront eachother 

Isabella4

Isabella and Wynn are still in love with eachother and they begin a romance

privately. Wynn says to her he have been jelaous all the time because Isabella is now married to another man, a wealthy gentleman Isabella parents wanted for her. Isabella says to him she married her husband because her parents wanted but her parents are now dead. She says to him that she still loves Wynn.

After the incident, Wynn starts to romance Isabella during the trip and she finally falls in love with him again.

After a brief affair with Wynn at the Titanic, Isabella contemplates divorce and she sends her husband a wireless saying they cannot be together anymore (despite their daughter).



Isabella6

Isabella is rescued by the Carpathia

When the ship starts sinking, Isabella reluctantly gets into a lifeboat (since she doesn't want to leave Wynn alone) after Wynn convinces her and forces her to board the boat. As the boat is lowered, Isabella confesses to Wynn a long kept secret: that her daughter Claire is actually Wynn's.

Isabella then is on the boat of Officer Lowe with some other women. Isabella asks the officer if they can go near the Titanic to rescue some survivors there are on the water, since in the lifeboat can be more poeple. The officer wants to wait some time, but after a while the lifeboat comes to the rescue of the survivors. Unfortunatelly, they have waited too long and there not any survivors on the water, only dead corpses.

Later the boat is rescued by the RMS Carpathia.

On the Carpaathia Isabella is grief-stricken when she finds Wynn's lifeless body on deck amongst other victims who have died of hypothermia.

But luckily, when the Carpathia reaches New York she is reunited with her family who are blissfully unaware of Isabella's tryst because the telegram was never sent out due to the sinking.


- Also in first class is the Allison family, a real family who traveled on the Titanic, returning home to Montreal with their two small children and new nurse, Alice Cleaver (Felicity Waterman).

They gradually become wary and suspicious of the nurse hysterical and neurotic behavior. Later on, a fellow maid asks her if she'd seen her in Cairo the previous month, but soon realizes that she remembers her from the highly publicized trial where Alice was accused of throwing her baby off a train.

When the Titanic starts sinking, Alice Cleaver panics and quickly boards a lifeboat with Trevor, the Allisons' infant son. The parents with their small daughter are unaware that the baby is safe and refuse to leave the ship without him, which in the end costs them their lives.


- A young vagrant named Jamie Persei (Mike Doyle) steals a ticket at a bar to get on board of the Titanic.

At the ship, he manages to become friends with one of the crewmen, Simon Doonan (Tim Curry), who is also a robber, but later is revealed to be a much more violent and callous criminal than Jamie.

Jamie falls in love with Aase Ludvigsen (Sonsee Ahray), a recent Christian convert and missionary.

On the night of the sinking, Aase is raped and beaten by Doonan, causing her to lose her faith and will to live, but Jamie manages to get her into Isabella's boat when the ship is sinking.

Unbeknownst to them, Doonan also sneaks aboard that same boat, disguised as an old woman. After the ship sinks, Aase is knocked off the lifeboat by Doonan after she recognizes him, and he attempts to hold the passengers in the boat hostage at gunpoint, but Officer Lowe, who is in charge of the boat, hits Doonan in the head with a paddle, snapping his neck.

Jamie himself manages to survive when he accidentally falls into one of the last lifeboats before the Titanic sinks. He subsequently atones for his past life after he finds Aase in the makeshift hospital aboard the Carpathia. In the end, upon arriving in New York, the two plan to start a new life together.

Cast[]

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- Catherine Zeta-Jones - Isabella Paradine


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- Peter Gallagher - Wynn Park


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- Mike Doyle - Jamie Persie


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- Tim Curry - Simon Doonan


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- Felicity Waterman - Alice Cleaver


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- George C. Scott - Captain Edward J. Smith



- Eva Marie Saint - Hazel Foley

- Harley Jane Kozak - Bess Aliison

-  Sonsee Ahray - Aase Ludvigsen

- Marilu Henner - Margaret "Molly" Brown

Reception[]

Titanic received mixed reviews from critics. The New York Daily News commented on the fact that the acting was substandard and the ship's operators and owner are portrayed "about as sympathetically as those connected with the Exxon Valdez." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer also referenced the "embarrassingly bad acting" and out of place scenes.

Awards[]

Titanic received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special. It was also nominated for Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special.

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