The Finest Hours
Craig Gillespie, 2016
The Finest Hours
Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman, 2007
The Finest Hours is a movie directed by Craig Gillespie in 2016 and based on the book The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman, first published in 2007. The movie features Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and others.
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Storyline
Bernard Bernie Webber, a crewman at Coast Guard Station Chatham, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, has fallen in love with a local girl, Miriam Pentinen. Meanwhile, the Pendleton’s engineer, Ray Sybert, as the surviving senior officer, organizes the surviving seamen to steer the sinking stern of the tanker onto a submerged reef, where it can lodge until rescuers arrive.
Movie vs Book
Year
2016
Minutes
117
Movie Rate
6.80
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Finest Hours
Director: Craig Gillespie
Country: USA
Year: 2016
Length: 1h57m
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Year
2007
Pages
197
Book Rate
7.66
S: Goodreads
Book
The Finest Hours
Subtitle: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
Author: Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
Country: USA
First published in: 2007
Length: 197 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“The job of the screenplay is to extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen maintaining its essence.”
BARRY EISLER (Writer)
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