PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:
DEAD MAN'S CHEST
Year: 2006
USA: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
UK: Buena Vista International UK
Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Kevin R McNally, David Bailie, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hollander, Naomie Harris, Martin Klebba, David Schofield, Alex Norton, Lauren Maher, Nej Adamson, Jimmy Roussounis, Moray Treadwell, San Shella, Jim Cody Williams, Michael Miranda, Luke De Woolfson, Derrick O'Connor, Georges Trillat, Israel Aduramo, Gerry O'Brien, Dermot Keaney, Clive Ashborn, Robbie Gee, Neil Panlasigui, Matthew Bowyer, Max Baker, Steve Speirs, John Boswall, Winston Ellis, Christopher Adamson, Andy Beckwith, Jonathan Linsley, Sylver, Simon Meacock, Natsuko Ohama, Josie Dapar, Vanessa Branch, David Sterne, David Keyes, Anthony Patricio, Barry Mcevoy, Michael Enright, Hernando "Sweepy" Molina, John Mackey, Spider Madison, Bud Mathis, Marco Khan, David Zahedian, Faouzi Brahimi, Jonathan Limbo, Alex Cong, Ho-Kwan Tse, Reggie Lee, Lejon O Stewart, Christopher S Capp, Felix Castro, Mike Haberecht, Rudolph McCollum, Gerard Reyes, M Scott Shields, Chris "Sully" Sullivan, Craig Thomson, Fred Toft
Director: Gore Verbinski
Country: USA
USA & UK: 150 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of adventure violence, including frightening images
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate horror and action-adventure violence
USA Release Date: 7 July 2006
UK Release Date: 6 July 2006
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Synopsis
Captain Jack is back...and so are Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, joined by a roistering shipload of characters both new and familiar, in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST—the epic second instalment in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN saga. Once again we have starring Johnny Depp starring in his Academy Award-nominated role, Orlando Bloom and 2005 Best Actress Oscar nominee Keira Knightley.
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski, Captain Jack sets sail on this all new adventure. In this swashbuckling and spectacular follow-up to the blockbuster 2003 film, the decidedly eccentric Captain Jack Sparrow is caught up in another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. Although the curse of the Black Pearl has been lifted, an even more terrifying threat looms over its captain and scurvy crew: it turns out that Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), Ruler of the Ocean Depths, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman, which no other ship can match in speed and stealth. Unless the ever-crafty Jack figures a cunning way out of this Faustian pact, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation in the service of Jones. This startling development interrupts the wedding plans of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who once again find themselves thrust into Jack's misadventures, leading to escalating confrontations with sea monsters, very unfriendly islanders, flamboyant soothsayer Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris) and even the mysterious appearance of Will's long-lost father, Bootstrap Bill (Stellan Skarsgard).
Meanwhile, ruthless pirate hunter Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) of the East India Trading Company sets his sights on retrieving the fabled "Dead Man's Chest." According to legend, whomever possesses the Dead Man's Chest gains control of Davy Jones, and Beckett intends to use this awesome power to destroy every last Pirate of the Caribbean once and for all. For times are changing on the high seas, with businessmen and bureaucrats becoming the true pirates...and freewheeling, fun-loving buccaneers like Jack and his crew threatened with extinction.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST is a fantastical epic adventure which, like its successful predecessor, will take audiences on the ride of their lives.