Why was this movie not nominated for Best Visual Effects? Or Best Makeup? This is some of the best disaster footage and wound prosthetics I have ever seen. Best Actress? Nope. The Bennett family decide to spend their Christmas holiday at a resort in Thailand. While lounging at the hotel pool, the island is hit by one of the worst tsunamis in history. Maria (Naomi Watts) and her oldest son Lucas (Tom Holland) are swept away by the force of the water. Maria is injured pretty badly but forces herself onward to help her son, despite fearing that the rest of her family is dead. Henry (Ewan McGregor) faces the same fears as he tries to care for the younger two children in the wreckage of the hotel.
This is one of those movies that makes you want to give money to charity. Harrowing is the adjective that comes to mind. Rob actually visited Thailand as part of a deployment two years later and said the damage was still visible. Nature is a bitch.
This movie caught a lot of flak because it's based on the true story of a family that survived the tsunami. Thing is, the cast is British and the actual family is Spanish so a lot of people started throwing the word "whitewashing" around. I'm not denying that's what happened here, but I don't think the movie necessarily suffers because of it.
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