Incredible Heroic True Story

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2016)

I saw "The Finest Hours", starring Chris Pine-Kirk in the new Star Trek movies, Unstoppable; Casey Affleck-Interstellar, the American Pie movies, and yes, he is Ben's brother; Holliday Grainger-Cinderella_2015, The Borgias_tv and Eric Bana-Star Trek_2009, Hulk_2003.
This is based on a true story about the U.S. Coast Guard's most daring rescue mission. It happened in 1952, off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, where 2 oil tankers-in close but separate locations-split in half due to the violent stormy weather. Chris is a by the book Coast Guard seaman that has just gotten engaged to his rather brassy-for that period of time anyway-girlfriend, Holliday. She is the one who proposed to him. Eric is the commander in chief at the Coast Guard station that Chris is stationed and sends Chris and 3 other volunteers out on a 12 man boat to rescue the survivors of one of the ships. Casey is the chief engineer on the boat that Chris is headed for and Casey is doing his best to keep the ship from sinking-it is split in half, remember? Everyone thinks Chris is on a suicide mission, what with being in such a small boat in such bad weather. And even if Chris makes it to the rapidly sinking ship in time, how can he rescue 32 men on his boat that is built for 12, including him and his 3 fellow rescuers? It is an interesting and thrilling story, especially since it is true. I enjoyed it. It's rated "PG-13" for sequences of peril and has a running time of 1 hour & 57 minutes. I don't know if I would buy it on DVD but it would be a great rental.