Behind the Story You Know

Rating: 7/10 (10 September 2016)

I saw "Sully", starring Tom Hanks-Bridge of Spies, Turner & Hooch; Aaron Eckhart-London Has Fallen, The Rum Diary; Laura Linney-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:Out of the Shadows, The Truman Show and Mike O'Malley- Concussion, Glee_tv.
This movie tells the incredible true story of how Chesley Sullenberger, a pilot that landed a plane that had lost both engines after hitting a flock of geese about 30 seconds after takeoff, on the Hudson river in New York on January 15, 2009, without any casualties-all 155 people on board survived! Now you may be familiar with the story but this movie is based on the book 'Highest Duty', written by Sullenberger and tells the behind the scenes story, you may not know. It's directed by Clint Eastwood-I think this is something like his 35th movie to direct. Tom plays Sully-Sullenberger's nickname-the man who became a hero to New York and most of the country after his heroic landing. Laura plays his wife and Aaron plays the co-pilot. The National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation almost immediately-the chairman is played by Mike. They were concerned with any human error that may have caused the forced water landing; had Tom or Aaron been drinking? Drugs? Family problems? They ran computer simulations trying to see if the plane could have made a safe landing or not. Tom & Aaron were just doing their jobs-not to mention that they saved everyone on board-and now they were having to worry about their reputations and the possibility of even losing their careers. It is an interesting story. It's rated "PG-13" for peril and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 36 minutes. I really enjoyed it-it's hard for Tom Hanks to make a bad movie-but it's not one that I would buy on DVD-one viewing was fine. It would make a great rental, though.