Chris Pine Leads a Rescue Mission in THE FINEST HOURS Trailer
Chris Pine has mixed in leading roles in Star Trek and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit with more interesting supporting roles in movies like Stretch and Into the Woods over the past few years, and now he's leaning back toward the leading man side of the equation with Star Trek Beyond and The Finest Hours, the latter of which has just received its first trailer.
Pine plays a member of the Coast Guard assigned to lead a team out on an impossible rescue mission to save the crew of a wrecked ship as an insane storm prepares to bash the East Coast. It's based on a true story, and it reminds me a little of The Perfect Storm — there's even a similar shot of a boat riding up against a towering wave. The film co-stars Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, Casey Affleck, and Ben Foster, and it arrives in theaters on January 29th, 2016.
A heroic action-thriller, “The Finest Hours” is the remarkable true story of the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history. Presented in Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D, the film will transport audiences to the heart of the action, creating a fully-immersive cinematic experience on an epic scale.
On February 18, 1952, a massive nor’easter struck New England, pummeling towns along the Eastern seaboard and wreaking havoc on the ships caught in its deadly path, including the SS Pendleton, a T-2 oil tanker bound for Boston, which was literally ripped in half, trapping more than 30 sailors inside its rapidly-sinking stern. As the senior officer on board, first assistant engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) soon realizes it is up to him to take charge of the frightened crew and inspire the men to set aside their differences and work together to ride out one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast. Meanwhile, as word of the disaster reaches the U.S. Coast Guard station in Chatham, Massachusetts, Warrant Officer Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana) orders a daring operation to rescue the stranded men. Despite overwhelming odds, four men, led by Coast Guard Captain Bernie Webber (Chris Pine), set out in a wooden lifeboat with an ill-equipped engine and little, if any, means of navigation, facing frigid temperatures, 60-foot high waves and hurricane-force winds.