Watched two trailers, looks like a real good movie.......
It’s an excellent movie! Non stop. And it represented just one crossing of one convoy. Just one.
The merchant Mainers and Those who shepherd them on a crossing were unsung hero’s of that war.
BTW: There was no actual water or other ships or planes in this movie. The only stage was essentially the ship’s bridge. Everything else was CGI and they did a hell of a job with it.
Hanks was outspoken about his opposition to the 2008 Proposition 8, an amendment to the California constitution that defined marriage as a union only between a man and a woman.
Hanks and others raised over US$44 million to campaign against the proposition, in contrast to the supporters’ $39 million, but Proposition 8 passed with 52% of the vote. It was overruled in June 2013, when the Ninth Circuit lifted its stay of the district court’s ruling, enabling Governor Jerry Brown to order same-sex marriage officiations to resume.
While premiering a TV series in January 2009, Hanks called supporters of Proposition 8 “un-American” and criticized LDS Church members, who were major proponents of the bill, for their views on marriage and role in supporting the bill. About a week later, he apologized for the remark, saying that nothing is more American than voting one’s conscience.