Titanic

James Cameron's Titanic is based on a real-life tragedy, and while its main story is fictional, it features characters based on real-life passengers of the ...

Titanic has been criticized for its length, as it has a running time of 3 hours and 15 minutes, but when taking out all scenes set in the modern-day and the credits, the movie is two hours and 40 minutes long. The story of Jack and Rose is fictional, but there are many elements in Titanic taken from the real-life tragedy of the ship, such as some characters like Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), J. Bruce Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), and Captain Edward John Smith (Bernard Hill), and, of course, the events that led to the sinking of the ship. James Cameron’s name has become synonymous with big-budget productions and emotionally charged stories, and one of his most successful projects is the 1997 disaster drama Titanic, the most expensive movie ever made at the time and the highest-grossing movie of all time for many years.