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I liked this a lot.

Its premise is to duplicate the many thousand mile voyage of Captain Bligh and several crew after he was kicked off his ship the Bounty.

With remarkably few resources he held his crew and the boat together.

With this recreation, the boat is a careful replica built in New Zealand, and they managed to dig up (not literally I hope) a distant relative of Bligh to be Captain.

We have the term "A Captain Bligh" for someone who is Autocratic and downplays the skills of others. And the relative does show this tendency.

As this is before the idea of "reality shows" the emotions here are quite real as the crew grumbles and starts hating every moment.

So a really interesting study of human emotion. Against this is the difficulty of making an interesting documentary sitting on a small boat in the middle of the Pacific.

I saw this in high school when it first came out.

It is very charming and sweet.

It was one of the first foreign languages I saw with subtitles. Since then I have been a strong follower of foreign films.

It is interesting that there are some strongly negative responses in the other comments, that such a gentle sweet film can register such strong responses.

I look at it as a bit of a fantasy ... that it is not there to really ask us to work out the nitty gritty of what happens to children or the other relationships. It sorta says ... how would you be in this situation? Anyway .. a very nice foreign film.