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The Finest Hours

Name: The Finest Hours
Director: Craig Gillespie
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Released: 2016-01-27
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger

2016 · 1h 57m · Action, Drama, History, Thriller

IMDb 6.7 Metacritic 58 RT 64%

Skip it tonight—while the true story of the 1952 Coast Guard rescue is genuinely heroic, this 2016 film plays it safe with a formulaic, paint-by-numbers approach that drowns the drama in schmaltz rather than tension. You'll get more thrills and authenticity from a documentary, or pick literally any other disaster film that actually earns its emotional beats.

Plot

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

Director: Craig Gillespie

Cast: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger

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