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- 2016
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 36 m
- 2016
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 36 m
Summary On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the “Miracle on the Hudson” when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigati...
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Todd Komarnicki, Chesley Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow
- 2016
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 36 m
- 2016
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 36 m
Sully
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7.6
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Summary On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the “Miracle on the Hudson” when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigati...
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Todd Komarnicki, Chesley Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
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76% Positive
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24% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
74
76% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
24% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Sully is an absolute triumph.
It’s hard to imagine an actor more appropriate to portray Sully than Hanks, who brings to the role a bedrock decency and soulful introspection. And Eckhart is perfect as the droll, easygoing Skiles.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 411 User Ratings
7.6
84% Positive
346 Ratings
346 Ratings
13% Mixed
55 Ratings
55 Ratings
2% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 411 User Ratings
7.6
84% Positive
346 Ratings
346 Ratings
13% Mixed
55 Ratings
55 Ratings
2% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
Terrifically detailed work directed by a living legend, and starring one too!
This is based on a true incident from a few years ago, where a veteran pilot actually was able to land his plane in the Hudson river in NYC and with all on board surviving. It is a terrifically detailed but slow moving work by 86 year old living legend Clint Eastwood starring the Jimmy Stewart/everyman of our era, in two time - should have been three time -Oscar winner Tom Hanks as the quietly unheroic hero pilot. (You were robbed of the statuette in 2000 for "Cast Away", Tom. Who else could play opposite a volleyball for two hours and make it work?).
I'm reminded of Eastwood's 2003 Academy Award winning "Mystic River" in that he deliberately takes his time in adapting the book, as he does here as well. The script is a little odd, shifting back and forth between the events of the day itself and the hearing to decide whether the pilot and co-pilot were at fault for not heading to one of the nearby airports. This leads to a little awkwardness during the first third of the film, but then works out just fine. We see the big event twice - The epic landing of the jet is more than worth seeing in and of itself.
Aaron Eckhart, for once, gets to play a good guy, the co-pilot. How nice to see Delphi Harrington, a much underused actress, as the passenger in the wheelchair. She was marvelous as an intelligent, sophisticated woman in the long-gone soap opera Where the Heart Is and was also believable as a trashy Southern murderess on Guiding Light and as a trashy Southern prostitute on All My Children. Here she plays a somewhat stereotypical New York Jewish mother. As a daughter she gets Valerie Mehaffey of Desperate Housewives.
Sully shows something rarely seen in movies these days, the simple heroism of ordinary people, like the ferry boat crew members who rescue the passengers from the plane.
Be sure to stay for the credits, where you will see a reunion of many of the actual passengers and crew from the flight. And as Columbo would say, just one more thing - The last line of the movie is a hoot and got a big laugh! Highly recommended.
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A complex, entertainning, nicely interpreted and surprisingly wonderful film from Clint eastwood that doesn't only carries the audience into a great untold story full of drama, where a tribute to an everyday hero is clearly saw.
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There is something compelling about someone who simply shows up for the job, day after day, carving out the remarkable from the unremarkable.
It basks in the rightness of those who work hard to get a proper result, simultaneously disinterested in reinventing the wheel and still finding some new ways to spin it.
Though not always as confident outside of the cockpit, Sully mostly earns its crowd-pleasing, lump-in-your-throat sentiment.
Hanks and those scenes in the cockpit make the movie worth seeing, in spite of the dumb melodramatics. But only just.
There are no real stakes, and I find the attempts at creating suspense to be almost offensive. Irritating, at the very least.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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It's a movie based around strong dialogues. If you have one and a half hour available you will not regret watching it but don't wait for the film that is going to change your life. It has some boring parts ,but overall the experience is rather intresting. Tom hanks really showed up ,almost carrying the film. Solid 6.
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brace for impact..
Sully
Often biographies takes their time, mostly more than 2 hours or so but this one seems to be to the point and not far fetched, hats off to the editor. Sully brews a soft hearted characters through rough series of events which probably is the only reason why you root for the protagonist from the first frame of the movie; that and of course blend in by excellent execution and Tom Hanks. Clint Eastwood as always justifies each and every character and gives them enough space and range (even the passengers) holding the bits and pieces of the movie with the emotion that comes off it. Tom Hanks is as always magnificent in it and is supported strongly by Aaron through out the course of it. Sully's strength is its runtime which is short and to the point but the problem is that the material isn't sufficient for even that amount of time cornering the feature to rely only upon the performance by the actors and the final act of the interrogation which is the highlight of it.
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Terrible, terrible movie! Extremely boring and halfway through I just whipped out my and started playing games on it. The only people that are rating this as a good movie, don't watch movies! If you want to watch a good movie go watch Flight! Made 4 years earlier, it's great watch and true story as well.
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Production Company
Flashlight Films,
Hurwitz Creative,
Malpaso Productions,
Orange Corp,
RatPac-Dune Entertainment,
The Kennedy/Marshall Company,
Village Roadshow Pictures,
Warner Bros.
Release Date Sep 9, 2016
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The untold story behind the miracle on the Hudson
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Critics Choice Awards
• 4 Nominations
Golden Trailer Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
