Friday, May 27th at 6:30 and 8:45 p.m.

The Finest Hours (2016) Starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck, Josh Stewart, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger; Rated P-13; 117 minutes; presented with captions for the hearing impaired.

This docudrama depicts the incredible true story of a daring Coast Guard rescue operation off of Cape Cod during a ferocious storm in the winter of 1952. When an oil tanker splits in half, trapping its crew aboard the sinking vessel, four brave guardsmen set out to save them.

For more information, please watch the film’s trailer, below. Check out what else we’re screening.

Official website

• Wikipedia article
• Internet Movie Database
• Rotten Tomatoes (63 percent positive from critics; 70 percent positive from audiences)
• MetaCritic (critics score of 58 [mixed or average review]; user score of 6.9 [generally positive])
• History vs. Hollywood

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