The Finest Hours 2016

 

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Directed by	Craig Gillespie
Screenplay by	Scott Silver Paul Tamasy Eric Johnson
Based on	The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman
Produced by	Jim Whitaker Dorothy Aufiero
Starring	Chris Pine Casey Affleck Ben Foster Holliday Grainger John Ortiz Eric Bana
Cinematography	Javier Aguirresarobe
Edited by	Tatiana S. Riegel
Music by	Carter Burwell
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures Whitaker Entertainment Red Hawk Entertainment
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release date	January 25, 2016 (TCL Chinese Theatre) January 29, 2016 (United States)
Running time	117 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$70–80 million[2][3]
Box office	$52.1 million[4]

The Finest Hours is a 2016 American action thriller film^[5][6] directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. The screenplay, written by Eric Johnson, Scott Silver, and Paul Tamasy, is based on The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman.^[7] The film stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and Eric Bana, and chronicles the historic 1952 United States Coast Guard rescue of the crew of SS Pendleton, after the ship split apart during a nor'easter off the New England coast.^[8][9][10]

The Finest Hours was released in the Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats on January 29, 2016.^[11] The film received mixed reviews from critics,^[12] and was a box office flop, grossing just $52 million against its $70–80 million production budget.