Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.

When Roger Hirson decided to turn ”The Old Man and the Sea” into a television movie, he knew he would be wrestling with something as obstreperous as the marlin in Ernest Hemingway`s novella.

The movie, which lands on Disney+ on Friday ... man versus nature and man versus self. "The Old Man and the Sea" was held up as the prototypical example of a man-versus-nature story, but I think ...