White Squall (1996)

Based on the story of the 1961 sinking of the Albatross, Jeff Bridges and his wife Caroline Goodall are instructors on a school at sea sailing boat filled with a crew of white teenaged boys. Bridges runs a strict, extremely disciplined ship but that isn’t enough when the ship runs into a storm that some believe was a white squall. It has an appealing cast of 1990s heart throbs including Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto, and Ryan Phillippe but the story takes a bit long to get to the actual storm and the attempts at building characters whose fates the viewer is supposed to later care about fall flat.