Academy Award winning Director Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") creates an all-audience movie event about a young man on a fateful voyage who, after a spectacular disaster, is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. He becomes marooned on a lifeboat he must share with the ship's only other survivor, a fearsome Bengal tiger with whom he makes an amazing and unexpected connection.
Lee conferred with James Cameron, director of "Avatar", to push 3-D filmmaking techniques to new levels of realism and excitement. Lee skillfully uses 3-D to further telling the storytelling process rather than as a gimmick. The film is based on the bestselling novel by Yann Martel.