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USA DVD / VIDEO - UK DVD/VIDEO - San Sebastian Film Festival 2012: Official Selection

The Impossible

ORIGINAL TITLE

The Impossible

YEAR

2012	Apple Trailer

RUNNING TIME

107 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Juan Antonio Bayona

SCREENWRITER

Sergio G. Sánchez (Story: María Belón)

COMPOSER

Fernando Velázquez

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Óscar Faura

CAST

Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin, Oaklee Pendergast, Samuel Joslin, Dominic Power, Sönke Möhring, Olivia Jackson, Natalie Lorence, Nicola Harrison, Bruce Blain, Johan Sundberg, Teo Quintavalle, Jan Roland Sundberg, Marta Etura

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Apaches Entertainment / Telecinco Cinema / Mediaset España / Canal+ España / IVAC / ICAA

OFFICIAL WEB

http://www.loimposible-lapelicula.com/

AWARDS

2012: Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Actress (Naomi Watts)
2012: Golden Globes: Nominated to Best Actress Drama (Naomi Watts)
2012: 5 Goya Awards: including Best Director. 14 nominations
2012: National Board of Review (NBR): Best New Actor (Tom Holland)
2012: Critics Choice Awards: 2 nominations
2012: San Sebastian Film Festival: Official Selection (Out of Competition)

GENRE

Drama | Based on a true story. Disaster film. Family Relationships. Survival Film

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

December 2004. The lives of María (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three small children who are spending their quiet holidays in Thailand turn into a nightmare when a huge tsunami engulfs the grounds of their hotel.

PRO REVIEWS

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"'The Impossible' is one of the most emotionally realistic disaster movies in recent memory -- and certainly one of the most frightening in its epic re-creation of the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami" (Deborah Young: The Hollywood Reporter)

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"The most harrowing disaster movie in many a moon, 'The Impossible' marries a tremendous feat of physical filmmaking to an emotional true story of family survival" (Justin Chang: Variety)

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"'The Impossible' is one of the best films of the year. (...) Rating: **** (out of four)" (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)

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Total Box Office worldwide: over 150 million US dollars. Best box office ever for a spanish film (the budget: 30 million Euros is 100% from Spain). (FILMAFFINITY)
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