I recommended this 1989 Australian movie recently – and, as I often do with my Best Bet recommendations, find myself ensnared all over again by own traps. (Just last Monday, after pointing out the special showing of All the President’s Men on HBO, I watched it again from start to finish – for about the 50^th time.) But Dead Calm, whether you’ve seen it or not, is worth a visit, too. It’s beautifully photographed, intensely edited, and the two male leads, Sam Neill and Billy Zane, are equally intense, but in very different ways. And as the woman who finds herself between them, on a sea voyage that soon turns sinister and deadly, the very young Nicole Kidman is almost unbelievably strong, vulnerable, and unforgettable.