"Johnny Depp, in an Oscar-nominated performance, steals the show as flamboyant Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 17th-century pirate who roams the Caribbean Sea and butts heads with a rival pirate (Geoffrey Rush) bent on pillaging the village of Port Royal. When the governor's (Jonathan Pryce) daughter (Keira Knightley) is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love (Orlando Bloom) save her. But their seafaring mission is hardly simple."