2016 · drama · adventure · history
The Finest Hours (2016)
Directed by Craig Gillespie1h 57m2016
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Our read: The Finest Hours (2016) (2016) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · adventure · history entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, extreme drama / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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