Sahara

Genre: Adventure

Worldwide gross$119M

Retired US admiral Sandecker's foundation finances various projects worldwide, including high tech marine salvage by brilliant Dirk Pitt's US Navy Seal veterans team including buddy Al Giordino, which dreams of finding the mysteriously missing Confederal gold aboard the ironclad battleship 'of Death'. Pitts bumps into evidence for his theory it crossed the Atlantic up the river Niger, where the admiral has an environmental project. Alas, it's a West African dictatorship where the ruthless president suppresses the desert people, in league with billionaire French energy industrialist Yves Massarde. Saving reckless WHO epidemics researcher Dr. Eva Rojas, he learns the secret abducted tribal slaves-run waste plant's toxic output threatens, through an underground fluvial system, to pollute the ocean and hence cause a global killer epidemic.

🏆 2 wins & 5 nominations total

Genres

Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director

Breck Eisner

Cast

Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, Steve Zahn

Released

8 April 2005

Runtime

2h 4m

Certificate

PG-13

IMDb rating

6.1 / 10

Votes

108,721

Metascore

41

Rotten Tomatoes

37%

Box office

$68,671,925

Budget

$130,000,000

Edition

Base