Lakeboat
Director: Joe Mantegna
Producer: Joe Mantegna, Morris Ruskin, Tony Mamet
Writer: David Mamet
Cast: Robert Forster , Denis Leary, George Wendt, Charles Durning, J. J. Johnston
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: From Pulitzer Prize winning writer David Mamet and director Joe Mantegna comes a tale about life on a freighter on America’s Great Lakes. This coming-of-age story follows Dale, an ivy-league college student, who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle, which falls short of his literary visions, Dale instead finds the experience rich in unexpected ways. The men's bravado and comical posturing gives way as their lively story-telling reveals more about their mythologized view of life than about what actually may have happened.