The Finest Hours is a 2016 American disaster drama directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay written by Scott Silver, Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy, based on the 2009 eponymous book by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias. Starring Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and Eric Bana, the film was released on January 29, 2016.
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A heroic action-thriller, “The Finest Hours” is the remarkable true story of the most daring rescue mission in the history of the Coast Guard. On February 18, 1952, a massive nor’easter struck New England, pummeling towns along the Eastern seaboard and wreaking havoc on the ships caught in its deadly path, including the SS Pendleton, a T-2 oil tanker bound for Boston, which was literally ripped in half, trapping more than 30 sailors inside its rapidly-sinking stern. As the senior officer on board, first assistant engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) soon realizes it is up to him to take charge of the frightened crew and inspire the men to set aside their differences and work together to ride out one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast. Meanwhile, as word of the disaster reaches the U.S. Coast Guard station in Chatham, Massachusetts, Warrant Officer Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana) orders a daring operation to rescue the stranded men. Despite overwhelming odds, four men, led by Coast Guard Captain Bernie Webber (Chris Pine), set out in a wooden lifeboat with an ill-equipped engine and little, if any, means of navigation, facing frigid temperatures, 60-foot high waves and hurricane-force winds.
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- Chris Pine as Boatswains Mate First Class Bernard Webber
- Casey Affleck as Ray Sybert
- Holliday Grainger as Miriam
- Eric Bana as Daniel Cluff
- Ben Foster as Seaman Richard Livesey
- Josh Stewart as Tchuda Southerland
- Graham McTavish as Frank Fauteux
- Kyle Gallner as Engineman Third Class Andrew Fitzgerald
- John Ortiz as Seaman Wallace Quirey
- Keiynan Lonsdale as Eldon Hanan
- Rachel Brosnahan as Bea Hansen
- Michael Raymond-James as A.B. Seaman D.A. Brown
- John Magaro as Seaman Ervin Maske
- Matthew Maher as Carl Nickerson
- Benjamin Koldyke as Sam
- Beau Knapp as Mel Gouthro
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