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The Finest Hours is a new Disney drama set in February 1952, when one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half.
On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
This new film is led by Chris Pine, one of the most wooden actors ever to grace the big screen and a terrible Captain Kirk, plus Ben Foster, who was great in Six Feet Under, and Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, Graham McTavish, Rachel Brosnahan, Kyle Gallner and Casey Affleck.
The poster has the ‘against all odds’-style tagline “32 Survivors. Room for 12!” Oh dear…
And with the Disney label, The Finest Hours is not one I’m looking forward to. If you are, then it’s out on January 29th 2016, so in the post-Xmas dumping ground then, since any non-Oscar contenders released in January or February are generally placed there because Hollywood wants to forget about them.
Check out the trailer below and click on the poster for the full-size image:
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