Giant Ship Heads Towards Iceberg!

Drifter Jack Dawson won third class tickets for the Titanic in a poker game, and he and his friend Fabrizio catch the ship just as it is leaving. First class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, her mother and Rose's fiance Cal Hockley also board. Rose is on the way to Philadelphia to marry Hockley, an arrangement made by her mother to protect her status of wealth. Unhappy with this decision, Rose contemplates throwing herself from the high perch of the Titanic's rails.

She is confronted by Dawson who convinces her to come away from the railing. Rose invites Jack to dinner in gratitude, and Jack spirits her away to a third class evening of dancing. Rose decides to craft her own future and asks Jack, who is an acclaimed artist, to draw a nude portrait of her.

The two then make their way to the cargo hold and find a rich man’s car waiting for them. They make love in the back seat before the ship suddenly hits an iceberg.

As people begin boarding lifeboats, Jack is arrested and locked in the master at arms’ office. Instead of boarding a lifeboat, Rose goes back to help Jack and the two must fight for survival. Jack and Rose’s fiancé Cal finally convince her to board a lifeboat, and Cal assures her that he has made arrangements to get both men safely off of the boat.

A Scene of Chaos

Cal tricks Jack and Rose decides to go back for him yet again, despite her being urged to stay on the lifeboat. Rose finds Jack, and Cal chases them into the flooded first-class dining room with a pistol. They manage to escape, and Cal cowardly forces his way on to one of the few remaining lifeboats after pretending to look after an abandoned child.

Rose and Jack go down with the sinking ship and Jack helps her onto a door that can only support the weight of one person. While Jack is in the freezing water, they exchange loving words, and Jack dies of hypothermia. Once safely aboard the rescue ship, Rose gives her name as Rose Dawson. She sees Cal one more time - frantically looking for her - but hides her face in a blanket just as he looks in her direction. Rose then proceeds to do everything that she and Jack promised to do together and lives her life in a much different way than she had ever imagined.