The Finest Hours FILM REVIEW

In February of 1952, 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.

**1/2 Stars

The Finest Hours

Director: Craig Gillespie

Screenplay by: Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson based on the novel by Casey Sherman & Michael J. Tougias

Starring: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of peril

Running Time: 1 hour 57 minutes

Rating Scale:

***** = Outstanding ****1/2 = Excellent **** = Very Good ***1/2 = Above Average

*** = Good **1/2 = Mediocre ** = Fair *1/2 = Poor * = Bad 1/2* = Abysmal