Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror. The mistake is discovered when Lucas cannot identify any of the dead woman's jewelry and he is subsequently reunited with his mother, who had been moved to a private room in the ICU. And they can provide great themes for disaster movies. Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. It features an international cast including Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland. McGregor, meanwhile, gives one of his best performances as the sad and desperate Henry, trying to play the hero, the provider, while knowing his cause is almost certainly lost."

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A representative from their insurance company, Zurich Insurance, assures them everything will be taken care of as Lucas sees countless people outside the hospital looking through patient lists.

The site's critical consensus reads, "The screenplay isn't quite as powerful as the direction or the acting, but with such an astonishing real-life story at its center, The Impossible is never less than compelling. The Impossible (Spanish: Lo Imposible) is a 2012 English-language Spanish disaster drama film directed by J. For me, it was the exact opposite. A geologist gets caught in the middle of it and a race against time begins. While in surgery, Lucas tells his father he has something really important to tell Maria. The world's most highly qualified crew of archaeologists and explorers is led by historian Milo Thatch as they board the incredible 1,000-foot submarine Ulysses and head deep into the mysteries of the sea.

The following day, the family boards an ambulance airplane to Singapore so Maria may receive further medical treatment. Lists about the many kinds of so-called "acts of God" and how they affect their surroundings. LanaYoshii.

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A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.

This meant Watts and Holland spent five weeks filming physically and psychologically demanding scenes in a massive water tank. In Spain the film was released on 11 October 2012, and opened in 638 cinemas, grossing $11,569,306 on its opening weekend, ranking No.

But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follows the path of its namesake. Actors: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Holland, Kowit Watthanakul, Actors: Amanda Peet, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, John Cusack, Danny Glover, Actors: Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave, Actors: Ha Ji-won, Uhm Jung-hwa, Lee Min-ki, Kang Ye-won, Sol Kyung-gu, Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Actors: Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr, Derek Jacobi, Mylène Jampanoï, Actors: Gene Hackman, Stella Stevens, Ernest Borgnine, Leslie Nielsen, Shelley Winters, Actors: Michael J.

Henry leaves the two boys with another family who are then taken to the mountains for safety by local relief crews. Bayona, Sergio G. Sánchez, Belén Atienza & Maria Belon Talk THE IMPOSSIBLE", "WATCH: Ewan McGregor & Naomi Watts Talking About Preparing For 'The Impossible, "Tsunami Survivor Maria Belon Reflects on 'The Impossible, "Tsunami survivor's impossible story hits the big screen", "Schoolboy actor Tom Holland finds himself in Oscar contention for role in tsunami drama", "First Teaser Trailer for THE IMPOSSIBLE Starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor", "Watch: 'The Impossible' Trailer Starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor", "Toronto Review: Juan Antonio Bayona's 'The Impossible' Is an Intense Realisation of the 2004 Tsunami at Odds With Overstated Sentimentalism", "Swept Away and Torn Apart in a Sea of Despair: 'The Impossible,' With Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor", "The Impossible is 'beautifully accurate', writes tsunami survivor", "Spain Box Office Results for October 12–14, 2012", "Global Showbiz Briefs: Maggie Smith, 'Impossible' Breaks Spanish Records, 'Beauty' To UK's Watch, BBC Turmoil", "Spain Box Office Results for October 19–21, 2012", "Spain Box Office Results for October 26–28, 2012", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Impossible_(2012_film)&oldid=984868118, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Spanish-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 October 2020, at 15:58. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box.
He learns that Maria is in the hospital, ready to undergo more surgery for her leg. As the anesthesia puts her to sleep, Maria experiences flashbacks of how she came to be injured and how she surfaced the water.

List Rules Tsunami-themed films only. It is based on the experience of María Belón and her family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. "[28], The Impossible was a box office success.

Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. "[21], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave a perfect four-star rating, praising the performances of Watts and McGregor, and the direction of Bayona. "[24], Damon Wise of The Guardian gave the film four stars out of five. 5.2.
Warner Bros. released the film in Spain on 11 October 2012. The film was a co-production of Spanish film companies Apaches Entertainment and Telecinco Cinema, and employed much of the crew from The Orphanage, including the director, writer, production manager, cinematographer, composer, and editor. "[26], According to The New York Times reviewer A. O. Scott, this narrowly-defined cinematic framing of the disaster through European and not Thai lenses represents "a troubling complacency and a lack of compassion in The Impossible," a movie which he found to be "less an examination of mass destruction than the tale of a spoiled holiday.