Sorry, Right Number

Rating: 7/10 (9 December 2016)

In Sorry, Wrong Number Barbara Stanwick spent roughly 90% of her on- screen time either speaking on or listening to the telephone; in Sully Laura Linney goes her one better and delivers her entire performance on the telephone in conversation with her husband Sully, Tom Hanks, who is unable to see he physically in the wake of his successfully landing an airliner (and saving all 155 passengers and crew) on the Hudson River in 2009. There are those who would argue that dramatic tension is unavailable in so recent an event in which the outcome is known virtually universally but, as I seem to never tire of saying, it's all in the wrist and by now Clint Eastwood's wrist in equal to anyone's in the business and as we have come to expect he delivers a fine film with sterling work from all concerned.