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Also known as Sully: The IMAX 2D Experience

2016 film directed by Clint Eastwood

Film · TMDB

7.2

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

Released: 2016-09-0796 minDir: Clint EastwoodDrama, HistoryBudget: $60.0MBox office: $241M

Cast

  • Tom Hanks as Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger
  • Aaron Eckhart as Jeff Skiles
  • Anna Gunn as Elizabeth Davis
  • Holt McCallany as Mike Cleary
  • Mike O'Malley as Charles Porter
  • Jamey Sheridan as Ben Edwards

Themes

  • rescue
  • new york city
  • airplane
  • investigation
  • pilot
  • based on true story
  • emergency landing
  • flight
  • aviation
  • airplane accident

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Ratings

IMDb

7.4/10

323,004 votes

Year
2016
Runtime
96 min
Genres
Biography, Drama, History

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Key facts

Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Written by
Todd Komarnicki
Based on
Highest Duty , by Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger Jeffrey Zaslow
Produced by
Clint Eastwood Frank Marshall Tim Moore Allyn Stewart
Starring
Tom Hanks Aaron Eckhart Laura Linney
Cinematography
Tom Stern
Edited by
Blu Murray
Music by
Christian Jacob The Tierney Sutton Band
Production companies
Village Roadshow Pictures Ratpac-Dune Entertainment Flashlight Films The Kennedy/Marshall Company Malpaso Productions Orange Corp
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
September 2, 2016 ( 2016-09-02 ) ( Telluride ) September 9, 2016 ( 2016-09-09 ) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$60 million
Box office
$240.8 million

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Wikidata facts

Duration
96
FilmAffinity ID
650789
Image
US Airways Flight 1549 (N106US) after crashing into the Hudson River (crop 1).jpg
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publication date
2016-00-00
title
Sully: Miracle on the Hudson
box office
125070033
capital cost
60000000
Commons category
Sully (film)
review score
85%
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Article

Sully (also known as Sully: Miracle on the Hudson) is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Todd Komarnicki, based on the 2009 autobiography Highest Duty by Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow. Tom Hanks stars as Sullenberger, with Aaron Eckhart as Jeffrey Skiles, and co-stars Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, and Jamey Sheridan. The film follows Sullenberger's 2009 emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, in which all 155 passengers and crew survived, and the subsequent publicity and investigation.

Sully premiered at the 43rd Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2016, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 9, 2016, in conventional and IMAX theaters. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $240 million worldwide, but created controversy with its fictionalized portrayal of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as "prosecutorial and closed-minded." The American Film Institute and National Board of Review each selected it as one of their ten best films of 2016, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at the 89th Academy Awards.

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