Story of survival after the tsunami in Thailand.

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2013)

The facts, on December 26th, 2004, a powerful undersea earthquake in the Indian ocean caused a devastating tsunami. Not the worst, but one of the places it was deadly was Thailand. This movie is a dramatization, based on a true story of a real family caught up in the tsunami on the beaches of Thailand.
Naomi Watts is Maria and Ewan McGregor is Henry. They live in Japan where he works, but are British. They travel, with their three young sons, to spend the Christmas Holidays in Thailand. She is a physician but on hiatus to raise the boys. They get a very nice, ground-floor villa overlooking the ocean about 200 yards away.
Enjoying the weather, the beach, and the pool, suddenly and with no warning the trees begin to shake and soon they see this giant wall of water coming towards them, with absolutely no idea what to do. They get bashed more then once, as the water comes in then surges out. The family members get separated, virtually everything is destroyed.
The movie, basically a true story, is about the family members hanging on, dealing with injury and infection in a makeshift medical center, hoping to survive and reunite.
The movie is very well done. The scenes are very realistic, I cringed loudly on several occasions. The DVD has a couple of good extras, one showing how they built a 1/3 scale resort village and simulated the tsunami wall of water intruding and destroying everything. They also included some interviews with the real Maria, an Italian woman.
SPOILERS: Marie is badly injured, on her chest and on her leg. She finds one son, the oldest, and they stay together. Henry manages to find the other two boys, but they end up in a different location. Maria needs surgery, she almost loses her leg, but ultimately they all meet up and as the movie ends they are being flown out of the area, all on their way to recovery.