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GenreDrama & Romance
RatedPG-13
Runtime3 hr 14 mins
ReleasedDecember 19, 1997
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorJames Cameron
StarringLeonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
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Titanic (1997)
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| Titanic's Details | |
| Genre | Drama & Romance |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Released | 11/01/1997 (Tokyo); 12/19/1997 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 3 hr 14 mins |
| Budget | $200M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Titanic's Interests | |
| General | Grand staircases, third-class parties, the bow of the ship, the Heart of the Ocean. |
| Music | James Horner. Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" was unavoidable in 1998. |
| Movies | A Night to Remember (1958). Same ship, black and white, no Leo. |
| Television | Downton Abbey. Opens on the Titanic news. Same corsets, drier land. |
| Heroes | Molly Brown (Kathy Bates). New money, zero fear, lends Jack a tux. |
| Titanic's Crew | |
| Director | James Cameron |
| Writers | James Cameron |
| Producers | James Cameron, Jon Landau |
| Cinematography | Russell Carpenter |
| Music | James Horner |
| Edited By | Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris |
| Production | Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment |
| Distributed By | Paramount Pictures (United States and Canada), 20th Century Fox (International) |
Real talk: a big chunk of Titanic’s first half is a fancy dinner party with a mean fiancé, and the whole thing runs 194 minutes. Billy Zane’s Cal is less a character than a tuxedo with a grudge, and some of the dialogue lands with a thud. James Cameron doesn’t do subtle. Then the ship hits the iceberg, and he does something few blockbusters have ever pulled off. The sinking unfolds slowly and patiently, and the movie never lets you forget how much harder it was for third class to reach the boats. The band playing on, the officers trying to keep order, the families waiting their turn. It’s sincere and it’s devastating. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet somehow sell a romance built in a few days. It made $2.26 billion worldwide and earned an A+ CinemaScore. An 8.9 because the corny parts are corny and the sinking is still one of the most powerful things a big studio movie has ever done. $371 says you go quiet for the whole last hour and blame it on being sleepy.
What works: The sinking is staged with real patience and respect, and DiCaprio and Winslet make a few days feel like a lifetime.
What doesn’t: The dialogue is often clunky, and Cal is such a cartoon villain that the first half drags whenever he’s on screen.
Who it’s for: Anyone who wants a giant old-school epic with a love story at the center, and a free evening to give it.
Spoilers
Jack gets Rose onto a floating piece of wreckage and dies in the freezing water after she promises him she’ll survive. In the present day, old Rose drops the Heart of the Ocean into the sea, and the film ends with her reunited with Jack on the ship’s grand staircase.
In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) is digging through the wreck of the Titanic for a famous blue diamond. Instead he pulls up an old drawing, and a 100-year-old woman named Rose (Gloria Stuart) calls to say the girl in it is her. Her story starts in 1912: seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) boards the ship engaged to rich, smug Cal Hockley (Billy Zane) and hates every second of first class. Down in third class is Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a broke artist who won his ticket in a card game. James Cameron directs. One hundred ninety-five minutes, one iceberg.
Anyone who can draw. Third class welcome, first class tolerated.
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Jack Dawson |
| Kate Winslet | Rose DeWitt Bukater |
| Gloria Stuart | the modern-day Rose Dawson Calvert |
| Billy Zane | Caledon "Cal" Hockley |
| Frances Fisher | Ruth DeWitt Bukater |
| Bill Paxton | Brock Lovett |
| Suzy Amis | Elizabeth "Lizzy" Calvert |
| Danny Nucci | Fabrizio De Rossi |
| David Warner | Spicer Lovejoy |
| Jason Barry | Tommy Ryan |
| Alexandrea Owens-Sarno | Cora Cartmell |
| Camilla Overbye Roos | Helga Dahl |
| Amy Gaipa | Trudy Bolt |
| Kathy Bates | Margaret "Molly" Brown |
| Victor Garber | Thomas Andrews |
| Bernard Hill | Captain Edward John Smith |
| Jonathan Hyde | J. Bruce Ismay |
| Eric Braeden | John Jacob Astor IV |
| Bernard Fox | Colonel Archibald Gracie IV |
| Michael Ensign | Benjamin Guggenheim |
| Jonathan Evans-Jones | Wallace Hartley |
| Mark Lindsay Chapman | Chief Officer Henry Wilde |
| Ewan Stewart | First Officer William Murdoch |
| Jonathan Phillips | Second Officer Charles Lightoller |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 8.0 / 10 (1,417,104 votes) → 8.0 / 10 (1,417,236 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +480 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $2.26B; Domestic box office $674.4M; Opening weekend $28.6M; Profit / loss (est.) +$832.4M; Rotten Tomatoes 88%; CinemaScore A+; box office chart updated; RT 88% (255 reviews); Metacritic 75 / 100; CinemaScore A+; IMDb users 8.0 / 10 (1,417,104 votes); movie.guru score 9.0.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.