great movie

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2013)

I disagree with some of the comments about this being a corny movie.I was living in thailand at the time on the eastern seaboard{pattaya}.And was actually supposed to be in koh samuii on xmas eve with my 2 kids and wife the kids were 4 years and the youngest 7 months,we had to cancel because i was really sick.I did not here about the tsunami until the 27th.If the tsunami had hit the eastern sea board my bar was 100 yards from the beach so i was double lucky.I met people who had been in the disaster as well as people who went to help and they were in tears when they related there stories.Some of these people where quite far inland when it hit and they where still hit very hard,so you can only imagine what it was like for the people near the sea. So i think this movie tells that story as for the insurance guy who gets the family out,i think there was an irony about people around them who were going nowhere,and i think this was deliberate by the director.
We will never know what people went through that day but this was a story based on a true family,and for them all to be reunited was impossible,in fact it was a miracle.