The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
“The deeper you go, the weirder life gets.”
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
Genres
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Studio
American Empirical Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou performed
Budget
$50.0M
Worldwide Gross
$34.8M
Gross Profit
−$15.2M
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~33/67, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Adventure) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Steve Zissou
Bill Murray
Steve Zissou
Ned Plimpton
Owen Wilson
Ned Plimpton
Jane Winslett-Richardson
Cate Blanchett
Jane Winslett-Richardson
Eleanor Zissou
Anjelica Huston
Eleanor Zissou
Klaus Daimler
Willem Dafoe
Klaus Daimler
Alistair Hennessey
Jeff Goldblum
Alistair Hennessey
Oseary Drakoulias
Michael Gambon
Oseary Drakoulias
Vladimir Wolodarsky
Noah Taylor
Vladimir Wolodarsky
Bill Ubell
Bud Cort
Bill Ubell
Pelé dos Santos
Seu Jorge
Pelé dos Santos
Anne-Marie Sakowitz
Robyn Cohen
Anne-Marie Sakowitz
Vikram Ray
Waris Ahluwalia
Vikram Ray
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