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The Finest Hour

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1991
 105 minutes (1 hrs 45 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Shimon Dotan

Starring

Rob Lowe · Gale Hansen · Tracy Griffith · Eb Lottimer · Baruch Dror · Daniel Dieker

Full cast & crew

Release dates

South Korea release date South Korea release: 25th March 1992
Japan release date Japan release: 29th April 1992
Portugal release date Portugal release: 29th May 1992

Certificates

US
R

13

16

M/12

NC16

Total grosses

UK total gross
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US total gross
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Global total gross
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News from around the web
The Finest Hours review – Chris Pine saves the day the old-fashioned way  The Guardian Thu, 18th February 2016

What Disney's The Finest Hours teaches us about mission and sacrifice  Premier Christianity Magazine Sun, 21st February 2016

The Finest Hours Review  empireonline.com Mon, 15th February 2016

Q&A with the Cast of The Finest Hours  We Live Entertainment Fri, 29th January 2016

Maria review | Angelina Jolie’s finest hour  Film Stories Thu, 9th January 2025

If new Netflix movie Jay Kelly isn’t a 2026 Oscar nominee for Best Picture, I’ll eat my hat  TechRadar Tue, 14th October 2025

Horror movie Smile~2022 is turining into a franchise and gets a sequel this year in the imaginatively titled Smile 2 which has been given an 18 age rating in the UK for strong bloody violence, gore.

The movie stars Naomi Scott who has previously been seen in Charlies Angels and the live action Aladdin~2019, it also stars Kyle Gallner who has been seen in Losers Take All and The Finest Hours.

The movie is once again directed by Parker Finn who directed the first Smile~2022 which was a feature film debut.

Movie Synopsis

A pop singer with a troubled past experiences a series of frightening events as she prepares for her comeback tour in this US.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

  • Title: Smile 2
  • BBFC age rating: 18 Certificate
  • Reason: strong bloody violence, gore
  • Release date: 18th October 2024
  • Runtime: 127 minutes (2 hours 7 minutes)
  • The movie is being released into movie theatres
  • Directed by:
    • Parker Finn
  • Starring:
    • Naomi Scott
    • Kyle Gallner
    • Rosemarie DeWitt

BBFC movie page

Disney returns to the animated scene this month with Wish which has been given a U age rating in the UK for mild fantasy threat, very mild rude humour, language

The movie features the voice of Evan Peters who has previously starred in Deadpool 2 and American Animals, it also features Chris Pine who has been seen in Into the Woods and The Finest Hours as well as playing Captain Kirk in the rebooted Star Trek movies.

The movie is co-directed by Chris Buck who has directed animated movie Surf's Up and was the co-director of Frozen~2013 and its sequel Frozen II and Fawn Veerasunthorn who is making a feature film debut.

Movie Synopsis

A young girl named Asha who wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from the sky to join her.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

  • Title: Wish
  • BBFC age rating: U Certificate
  • Reason: mild fantasy threat, very mild rude humour, language
  • Release date: 24th November 2023
  • Runtime: 95 minutes (1 hours 35 minutes)
  • The movie is being released into movie theatres
  • Directed by:
    • Chris Buck
    • Fawn Veerasunthorn
  • Starring:
    • Evan Peters
    • Chris Pine
    • Ariana DeBose

BBFC movie page

Based on a true story from a couple of years back Dumb Money has been given a 15 age rating for strong language, sex references, drug misuse.

The movie stars Paul Dano who recently has been in the hit movie The Batman and has also starred in The Extra Man and The Guilty, it also stars Pete Davidson who has previously appeared in The Guilty and Bodies Bodies Bodies.

The movie is directed by Craig Gillespie who is most famous for directing Cruella but has also directed The Finest Hours and the remake of Fright Night~2011 from 2011.

Movie Synopsis

Everyday people flip the script on Wall Street and get rich by turning GameStop into one of the world's hottest companies. In the middle of everything is Keith Gill, a regular guy who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock. When his social media posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets wealthy -- until the billionaires fight back and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

  • Title: Dumb Money
  • BBFC age rating: 15 Certificate
  • Reason: strong language, sex references, drug misuse
  • Release date: 22nd September 2023
  • Runtime: 104 minutes (1 hours 44 minutes)
  • The movie is being released into movie theatres
  • Directed by:
    • Craig Gillespie
  • Starring:
    • Paul Dano
    • Pete Davidson
    • America Ferrera

BBFC movie page

Marvel's adult orientated superhero movie Deadpool is the top new film of the week on the UK video sales list.

Deadpool was released at in the UK on 12th February 2016 and entered the box office at the top after a god advertising campaign.

The film had a really good run at the box office spending 3 weeks at the top and managing an 8 week run on the box office.

The film took £37.6 million at the UK box office making it the 54th top grossing movie and it took $775.6 million across the globe making it the 61st top grossing movie globally.

The Revenant fell from the top where it entered last week to number 3 this week.

Also new this week is Dads Army at number 2 and 13 Hours The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi at number 6, Bone Tomahawk makes a new entry at number 8 and The Finest Hour enters at number 16, finally Point Break (the remake) is new at 20.

At the world box office this week King Fu Panda 3 makes an impressive debut at the top of the box office from 7 countries.

making a world wide debut of $116 million the film leads the pack by quite a considerable margin with the US being the top market the film was released in.

Falling a single place this week is The Revenant which falls to number 2 with $36 million, this brings the Oscar nominated films world gross to $274.7 million, and Oscar is still to come.

Highest total grossing film is still Star Wars: The Force Awakens which this weeks adds $23.3 million bringing its total gross now to over $2 Billion, only the third film ever to do so.

Avatar was the first with Titanic following, interestingly both these film took a second release to do it, although with Titanic it was years later unlike Avatar which was a year later.

Here is the full world wide box office top 10:

  1. Kung Fu Panda 3 - $116,700,000
  2. The Revenant - $36,700,000
  3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $23,382,000
  4. The 5th Wave - $20,000,000
  5. Ride Along 2 - $13,445,520
  6. Alvin And The Chipmunks The Road Chip - $13,235,000
  7. Dirty Grandpa - $13,075,000
  8. The Finest Hours - $11,927,000
  9. The Boy - $11,394,000
  10. The Big Short - $9,800,000