Chris Pine and Casey Affleck Prepare for ‘The Finest Hours’

Chris Pine and Casey Affleck star in The Finest Hours

Walt Disney Studios announced filming will begin this month in Massachusetts on The Finest Hours, with Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and Holliday Grainger in starring roles. Craig Gillespie (Million Dollar Arm, Lars and the Real Girl) is directing from a script by Paul Tamsay & Eric Johnson (The Fighter) and Scott Silver (8 Mile, The Fighter). The Finest Hours is based on the Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias book and inspired by a true story.

The Finest Hours will open in theaters in late 2015.

The Plot:

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. The Finest Hours is the story of their heroic mission, which is still considered the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history.


-By Rebecca Murray

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